Thanks but I like to keep my GitHub clean of spurious forks.
Nonetheless I look forward to finding out what "the one digit thing" refers to. It can't be a shell function, which is demonstrably not limited to single-digit micro segments (and is adaptable to wider major/minor ones).
That leaves one of the following:
- chopping up the bytes of `version.txt` right inside a source file - adapting Neil's python script, with its dependency chain of external modules, one of them living inside Scintilla's script directory, and a new `__pycache__` entry for `.gitignore`