how to create lines of text with increasing numericals in gvim

Question

I have some text lines as shown below

text1
text1
text1
text1

I want to change them to

text1
text2
text3
text4

Is there an easy way to do it in gvim. I know visual block with ctrl+v can replace one letter with other. But I dont know how to generate sequential numbers.

Help appreciated. Thanks

actually in the question above each word "text1" is in a different line. Though I typed all the words in different lines, all words are shown in one line. — Vivek, Mar 17 '16 at 11:01
The question is about editor, not on programming. It's off-topic. — Farside, Mar 17 '16 at 11:12
Well then consider if instead of text1, text2, text3, etc. you wanted arr[0], arr[1], arr[2], etc. Programming! — Ben, Mar 17 '16 at 15:06
Possible duplicate of [Vim - incremental numbering via regular expression search and replace](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26681541/vim-incremental-numbering-via-regular-expression-search-and-replace) — imbichie, Mar 18 '16 at 03:39

score 5 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 17 '16 at 11:11

You could select your text, starting from the second line, and use g<ctrl-a>.

From :h v_g_CTRL-A :

                            *v_g_CTRL-A*
{Visual}g CTRL-A    Add [count] to the number or alphabetic character in
                    the highlighted text. If several lines are
                    highlighted, each one will be incremented by an
                    additional [count] (so effectively creating a
                    [count] incrementing sequence).  {not in Vi}
                    For Example, if you have this list of numbers:
                        1.
                        1.
                        1.
                        1.
                    Move to the second "1." and Visually select three
                    lines, pressing g CTRL-A results in:
                        1.
                        2.
                        3.
                        4.

Note: this was added somewhere in the many 7.4.x patches, so you'll need to download a nightly build or Vim without Cream or something like that to have this feature. — Ben, Mar 17 '16 at 15:08
@Ben The Vim site offers some more recent(ish) builds now as well (gvim74-1024 at the time of writing), not sure if this is new enough, though... — Martin Tournoij, Mar 17 '16 at 17:15

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 18 '16 at 06:41

1

You can try out this,

:for i in range(1,4) | put ='text'.i | endfor.

It works fine in vim without any plug-in.

answered Mar 18 '16 at 06:41

Prakash Darji

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 18 '16 at 06:22

There is a pretty powerful plugin VisIncr, maybe you can try it.

Examples:

    :I
                Use ctrl-V to
    Original    Select, :I
       8            8
       8            9
       8            10
       8            11
       8            12

    :I -1
                Use ctrl-V to
    Original    Select, :I -1
       8            8
       8            7
       8            6
       8            5
       8            4

how to create lines of text with increasing numericals in gvim

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