Macro for making numbered lists in vim?

Question

Often times it seems I have a list of items, and I need to add numbers in front of them. For example:

Item one
Item two
Item three

Which shoul

Answer 1

Maybe it's not a macro solution, but at least it's easy.

add numbers to all lines

It's possible to use :%!nl -ba or :%!cat -n commands which will add line numbers to all the lines.

^{On Windows, you've to have Cygwin/MSYS/SUA installed}.

add numbers to selected lines

To add numbers only for selected lines, please select them in visual mode (v and cursors), then when finished - execute the command: :%!nl (ignore blank lines) or :%!cat -n (blank lines included).

formatting

To remove extra spaces, select them in visual block (Ctrl+v) and remove them (x).

To add some characters (., :, )) after the numbers, select them in visual block (Ctrl+v), then append the character (A, type the character, then finish with Esc).