How to increment in vim under windows (where CTRL-A does not work…)

Question

While CtrlX works fine in vim under windows, CtrlA selects all (duh).

Is there a way to increment a number with a keystro

Answer 1

You can make CtrlA to increment in windows by opening up the 'mswin.vim' file in your vim directory and finding the section that looks like:

" CTRL-A is Select all
noremap  gggHG
inoremap  gggHG
cnoremap  gggHG
onoremap  gggHG
snoremap  gggHG
xnoremap  ggVG

Comment out all of these lines as follows:

" CTRL-A is Select all
"noremap  gggHG
"inoremap  gggHG
"cnoremap  gggHG
"onoremap  gggHG
"snoremap  gggHG
"xnoremap  ggVG

and the CtrlA keystroke will increment.

This is a pretty nice option when your keyboard doesn't have a real number pad.