Re: manual: a wrong description in sample scripts

[Micah Cowan]

(05/25/2011 10:31 PM), wu liang wrote:
> Sir,
> In the chapter "4.2 Increment a Number", it is said " The tn commands
> are not necessary, but make the thing
>  faster". However it is not correct in case that  all the digits is 9.
>  For example, 999 will not get result of 1000 but 2000, if there is no
> tn command,since it will be addressed again in the following s
> command.

Yup.

It also strikes me that the comment

# replace all leading 9s by _ (any other character except digits, could
# be used)
:d
s/9\(_*\)$/_\1/
td

is incorrect, since "leading" should mean the left-most digits, whereas
this code is clearly replacing the right-most (trailing) digits.

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