Why does vim increment (Ctrl+A) skip 8s and 9s?

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Mar 15, 20261045 views

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I'm trying to write a long XML catalog using vim macros to write all the repetitive stuff. I've found it's useful to write a macro yanking the previous entry, then going through each item and incrementing it with Ctrl+A. Vim does OK with incrementing 001 to 002, all the way through 007, but then it…

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will handle it. The problem you're having is because Vim considers numbers starting with 0 octal or hex, depending. More on that in

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Why does vim increment (Ctrl+A) skip 8s and 9s?

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