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

A similar problem occurs under GNU/Linux when using Vim with mswin.vim. Remapping Alt+X to Ctrl+A prior to evoking mswin.vim solved my issue.

execute "set =\ex"
noremap  
source $VIMRUNTIME/mswin.vim
behave mswin

Now, Alt+X and Ctrl+X respectively increase and decrease numbers in Vim.

Mapping to Alt key combinations is often not evident in Vim; read more about this here.