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

I realize that this is an old question, but I ran across another option today based on the following question. Making gvim act like it does on linux will allow CTRL-A to work as you expect it to:

how to make gvim on windows behave exacly like linux console vim?

There is a section of the _vimrc that has the following items. These cause many of the control characters to act like they do on Windows.

set nocompatible
source $VIMRUNTIME/vimrc_example.vim
source $VIMRUNTIME/mswin.vim
behave mswin

I commented out (with ") the mswin lines and the set nocompatible line. From there, I added set compatible. This causes gvim to act like it does on linux. Thus, mine looks something like:

set compatible
source $VIMRUNTIME/vimrc_example.vim
"set nocompatible
"source $VIMRUNTIME/mswin.vim
"behave mswin

I just learned this trick today, so if I'm not completely correct in my information, please let me know.