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Increment and decrement numbers in Emacs

#+TITLE: Evil Numbers

  • Features
    • Increment / Decrement binary, octal, decimal and hex literals.

    • Works like =C-a= / =C-x= in VIM, i.e. searches for number up to =eol= and then increments or decrements.

    • When a region is active, as in evil's visual mode, all the numbers within that region will be incremented/decremented (unlike in VIM).

    • Increment/decrement numbers incrementally like =g C-a= / =g C-x= in VIM.

    • Optionally keep zero padding (off by default).

** Detected Literals

  • Binary, e.g. =0b0101=, =0B0101=.
  • Octal, e.g. =0o755=, =0O700=.
  • Hexadecimal, e.g. =0xDEADBEEF=, =0XCAFE=.
  • Unicode superscript and subscript, e.g. =²= and =₁=.
  • Usage Once this package is installed, all you need to do is bind keys to =evil-numbers/inc-at-pt= and =evil-numbers/dec-at-pt=.

    Position cursor over or before the literal and play with your numbers!

    You may also want to bind keys to the incremental versions of these functions.

** Customization

  • =evil-numbers-pad-default= :: Set to =t= if you want numbers to be padded with zeros (numbers with a leading zero are always padded). If you want both behaviors, all commands take an optional argument =padded=.

  • =evil-numbers-separator-chars= :: This option to support separator characters, set to "_" or "," to support numeric literals such as: =16_777_216= or =4,294,967,296=.

    You may wish to set this as a buffer local variable to enable this only for languages that support separators.

  • =evil-numbers-case= :: The case to use for hexadecimal numbers.

    • =nil= Current case (default).
    • '=upcase= Always upper case.
    • '=downcase= Always lower case.
  • =evil-numbers-use-cursor-at-end-of-number= :: Support matching numbers directly before the cursor.

    This is off by default as it doesn't follow VIM's behavior.

** Key Bindings Example key bindings:

#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp (global-set-key (kbd "C-c +") 'evil-numbers/inc-at-pt) (global-set-key (kbd "C-c -") 'evil-numbers/dec-at-pt) (global-set-key (kbd "C-c C-+") 'evil-numbers/inc-at-pt-incremental) (global-set-key (kbd "C-c C--") 'evil-numbers/dec-at-pt-incremental) #+END_SRC

or only in evil's =normal= & =visual= states:

#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp (evil-define-key '(normal visual) 'global (kbd "C-c +") 'evil-numbers/inc-at-pt) (evil-define-key '(normal visual) 'global (kbd "C-c -") 'evil-numbers/dec-at-pt) (evil-define-key '(normal visual) 'global (kbd "C-c C-+") 'evil-numbers/inc-at-pt-incremental) (evil-define-key '(normal visual) 'global (kbd "C-c C--") 'evil-numbers/dec-at-pt-incremental) #+END_SRC

Keypad =+= and =-= present an alternative that can be directly bound without shadowing the regular =+= and =-=:

#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp (evil-define-key '(normal visual) 'global (kbd "") 'evil-numbers/inc-at-pt) (evil-define-key '(normal visual) 'global (kbd "") 'evil-numbers/dec-at-pt) (evil-define-key '(normal visual) 'global (kbd "C-") 'evil-numbers/inc-at-pt-incremental) (evil-define-key '(normal visual) 'global (kbd "C-") 'evil-numbers/dec-at-pt-incremental) #+END_SRC

  • Install

** Basic Installation Put in =load-path=, =(require 'evil-numbers)= and set key bindings.

** Use Package Assuming you have the =melpa= repository enabled, =use-package= can be used as follows.

#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp (use-package evil-numbers) #+END_SRC

  • Known Bugs See http://github.com/juliapath/evil-numbers/issues

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