[ILUG] RE: Vim macro for autoincrementing an integer

[John P. Looney]

On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 01:50:03PM +0100, Rory Winston mentioned:
> Hi,
> 
> Found a macro (written by VIm guru Benji FIsher) that does the below, but I
> cant seem to get it to work in my .vimrc. Do I need to use exec or normal to
> run this substitution? I want to put it in an exisiting function that is
> called whenever a certain filetype is written (C, Perl, Java, etc). BTW,
> I've just moved to Vim 6 (as of 10 minutes ago :-)) so if you have a version
> 6 -specific method, thats OK
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Rory
> 
> :

 You want to add to your .vimrc;

au BufWrite *.txt s/\(version.*\)\(\d\{2,3}\)/\=submatch(1).(1+submatch(2))/

 Only, I'm not sure what that regexp matches... what's \d ?

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