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

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 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.

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 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:

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

You want to had a number at each row that you have selected, but not the same. For exemple, 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 + maj + P 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

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

Use Emmet package try this :

  {$ text${newline}}*4