How to insert a column of increasing numbers in Sublime Text 2?

Question

text
text
text
text

after the editing, those text becomes to

1 text
2 text
3 text
4 text

It's easy in Notepad ++ with the Column Editor， but I don't know how to do the same in Sublime Text 2.

Answer 1

The Text Pastry plugin does the job very well. It offers the Insert Numbers Syntax.

Select multiple lines with CMD+SHIFT+L (Sublime default):

   text|
   text|
   text|
   text|

Move the cursor where you want it:

 | text
 | text
 | text
 | text

And insert numbers with Text Pastry by hitting CMD+ALT+N (in Windows: CTRL+SHIFT+ALT+N) and entering 1 space 1 space 0:

 1| text
 2| text
 3| text
 4| text

Where 1 space 1 space 0 stands for:

• Integer to start with 1
• Increment by 1
• Padd leading zeros 0

Replace CMD with CTRL on Windows or Linux machines.

Answer 2

copy of this post https://stackoverflow.com/a/64083371/5902698

You want to add a number at each row that you selected, but not the same. For example, you select 5 cursors and you want to write 1 2 3 4 5.

select your 5 cursors (maybe you can use the shortcut ctrl + shift + L)

ctrl + shift + P (⌘⇧P for macOS) and select Arithmetic

Because you have 5 cursors, it propose 1 2 3 4 5

If you want you can change your step of iteration

Or start from an other number than 1

Add even numbers

Answer 3

For this particular case you can use Increment Selection package. Just press Ctrl+Alt+I (Command+Control+I) while having multiple cursors at the beginning of each line. In addition to melinath's answer, here's an example of how to do it:

You will need Package Control first. It shouldn't take more than 30 seconds to install both things.

Steps:

1. Install Package Control.

• Open Command Palette: Ctrl+Shift+P (Mac: Command+Shift+P).
• Type Install Package Control and click to install.

1. Install Increment Selection package.

• Open Command Palette again.
• Type Package Control: Install Package, click on it and wait a short period.
• Type Increment Selection and click on it to install.

1. Add line numbers to the beginning of each line.

• Select all lines with Ctrl+A (Mac: Command+A)
• Change selection to multiple lines with Ctrl+Shift+L (Mac: Command+Shift+L)
• Go to the start of each line by pressing Home (Mac: Command+←)
• Use Increment Selection with Ctrl+Alt+I (Mac: Command+Control+I)

Result:

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Other examples for Increment Selection

Increment Selection can also replace numbers, prefix numbers with leading zeroes, increment letters, increment by a step and more.

   [1] text    [1] text    [1] ->  1| text  2| text  3|
   [a] text    [a] text    [a] ->  a| text  b| text  c|
  [01] text   [01] text   [01] -> 01| text 02| text 03|
[05,3] text [05,3] text [05,3] -> 05| text 08| text 11|
[5,-1] text [5,-1] text [5,-1] ->  5| text  4| text  3|

Hint: [] stands for a selection, | stands for a caret.

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Answer 4

The IncrementSelection plugin enables this behavior. If you have Package Control installed, you can just search for and install it. Easy peasy!

Answer 5

Use Emmet package try this :

  {$ text${newline}}*4

Answer 6

My simple workaround (up until now when I found this thread) was to go to my spreadsheet editor generate the sequence there, copy, back to subl, expand the cursor over however many lines and paste.

This approach can be applied in any text editor that allows you to expand (clone) the cursor.

Answer 7

You can use the plugin ConyEdit to do this, use its command line cc.abl '#1 ' to append before lines with the contents that you want.

Answer 8

@Nicoolasens This answer is great! Just adding one detail: On macOS you can follow these steps to put a curser at the end of each line:

1. Use command+A to choose all lines;
2. Use command+shift+L to put a curser after each line.