Questions tagged [folding]
A feature which lets visually hide (and toggle) regions of a text file, by replacing its contents with a single outline line.
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How to display a list of all folds?
How can I show a list of all folds?
e.g., maybe a list something like:
1-3
12-18
13-16
where <start-line>-<end-line> are the starting and ending lines of the fold.
Is there a command-line ...
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Folding example from Learn Vimscript the Hard Way not working?
I'm reading Learn Vimscript the Hard Way - Chapter 18, which is also about folds.
I'm surprised to see that copying the sample code
" Vimscript file settings ---------------------- {{{
augroup ...
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Make fold feature act like Emacs's org-mode fold
In Emacs org-mode, folds use * at the start of the lines, and any * added consecutively, will add a level of indentation to the header.
Furthermore, the header text placed after * or any number of it, ...
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How often and when is foldexpr evaluated?
I want to toggle foldmethod between expr and manual because if we always set foldmethod=expr, then the cursor tends to move slowly in vim.
I think that foldexpr is evaluated just after switching ...
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How does expression folding actually work?
The following is a stripped down version of my folding function for LaTeX documents:
setlocal foldmethod=expr
setlocal foldexpr=LaTeXFoldsExpr(v:lnum)
" Sections to be folded
let g:...
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Is it possible to fold/unfold only one function
I'm trying to fold my c++ code.
Google told me that I should set foldmethod=indent. But this is not what I need.
set foldmethod=indent makes all of folds happen automatically when I enter a c++ file. ...
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Why does creating a new fold sometimes cause the entire file to be folded?
Sometimes when I create a new fold in vim, it folds the entire file. Why?
(foldmethod=manual)
e.g.,
zi (all folds are now open)
zi (all folds are now closed)
lines 1-309 are folded closed, and lines ...
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Markdown folding in vim 8.2
I'm using vim 8.2 on Win 10. I want to enable markdown folding with the built-in markdown.vim.
But it will not work. I have tried solutions from other questions (e.g., Enable Expr Folding in Markdown ...
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What does three commented curly brackets ("{{{) at the end of a line mean? Is it just a comment?
In the tcomment plugin, specifically in:
~/.vim/pack/tml/start/tcomment.vim/autoload/tcomment.vim and
~/.vim/pack/tml/start/tcomment.vim/plugin/tcomment.vim
I'm seeing this at the end of some lines:
...
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How can I fold some lines on opening a buffer?
I want to fold from "Copyright" to "CONNECTION" every time I open a .c or .h file, so I don't have to see it. The license does have newlines in it in my files, so selecting shouldn'...
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TeX/LaTeX vim fold markers options
In complex files, especially when writing packages with basic TeX-LaTeX code, the standard definition of foldmarker, namely {{{,}}}, is unfortunate — in effect is quite common to have pieces of code ...
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Better folding on file open — based on file length?
I like having files be opened folded, specially when they are large. However, when they are small, it can be an overkill (like a markdown file with a single heading). In such cases, I'd like to open ...
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Only close first fold when file is opened
When I open a file, I want to automatically fold all outer most folds, so no nesting. Here is what I currently have in my config:
set fdm=syntax
set foldnestmax=20
set foldenable
" set foldlevel=99
...
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maintain alignment of text after folding
When a block of text is folded in vim, the first line of folded text is displayed in the foldline at a constant offset from the left edge of the window. Can the offset of that text be instead set to ...
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vimscript: Efficient way to extract portion from line of text
I have a plugin that does syntax highlighting and folding for a kind of data file. The syntax and folding are both dependent on textual values in specific places (columns) of current line of text.
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Adding a new line after a fold
At the end of a file I have these lines, line 19 is actually a beginning of a 4 line fold.
Now if I want to add a new line after the fold, i.e a new line number 24, I usually type 'A' and enter ...
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Is there any way to prevent modelines getting reapplied when files are saved / written?
For some Markdown documents, I like them to open with some sections initially folded (I use the plugin vim-markdown-folding). I've tried setting a modeline that looks like this:
<!-- vi: set ...
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Unable to change foldmethod
I have the following simple line:
inoremap <silent> <TAB> <C-o>:set foldmethod=manual<cr>
However, after this command is run and I run set foldmethod?, it reports the ...
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XML syntax folding and custom tag spell checking
I have the following in my ~/vim/syntax/xrc.vim to spell check contents of specific tags when editing XRC files that are just XML files with predefined schema:
runtime syntax/xml.vim
" check ...
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vim - copy folds to a copied file
Any way to copy folds to a copied file?
Example: file1 has several folds, now I create a new file cp file2 newfile. newfile doesn't have folds that I had created in vim, of course it won't as cp and ...
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How to limit nest-level for folds with vim-anyfold plugin
For folding java code (also nice for c, cpp, python etc.), I just installed the vim-anyfold plugin. In my ~/.vimrc, I've added
autocmd Filetype java,c,cpp AnyFoldActivate
to automatically activate ...
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Changing foldmarker per filetype with vim 8.2
On an up-to-date Arch system, I set up marker-based folds in vim and python scripts like so:
Extracted from my ~/.vimrc [1]
set nocompatible " default
filetype plugin indent on
set nofoldenable
set ...
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Highlight color columns on top of folds (not below)
I'm highlighting folds and color columns in colors different from the background and from each other. Here's an excerpt of my vimrc with all (potentially) relevant lines:
" ~/.vimrc
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" Folding ...
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“Invalid expression” setting 'foldtext', what is wrong?
I am trying to set 'foldtext', but it seems I misunderstand expressions, types, etc. of Vim fundamentally.
Why does the following refuse to work?
set foldtext=v:folddashes."TEST"
Whereas this works?...
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How to search only in a text which is not folded?
I would like to use search in file with folded functions to search only in functions titles. But common vim search searches inside folding and unfolds any hidden text. Is there a way to search only in ...
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Automatically fold particular content, in any filetype
I often find myself patching projects that add a relatively big (23 lines out of a 37-line file? ) license-header to every. single. file.
Is there a plugin or straightforward way I can add a global ...
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Folding in VimWiki like in org mode?
I moved from org mode to VimWiki. I used to write "logs" like this
* 2020-02-04
FeatureA
- progress
Feature B
- progress
The file can get pretty long as you can imagine.
Now with ...
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How do you disable automatic code folding?
I use foldmethod=indentbut I hate how it starts each file pre-folded. To get around this I put au BufWinEnter * normal zi in my vimrc. That had worked fine so far, but now that I started using CoC, My ...
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Deleting folds over a range
Working in an index with mucked up manual folds. Would like to delete folds from current line to end of file.
Have tried:
:.,$zd
and
:.,$df
So far I've just done a visual selection from current ...
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Prevent VIM from folding a large file
For editing XML files I have the following in my init.vim
" Automatically enable folding of XML-files
augroup XML
autocmd!
autocmd FileType xml let g:xml_syntax_folding=1
autocmd FileType xml ...
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change fold sign character
I know per my question remove trailing dashes in foldtext that I can remove the trailing dashes from collapsed fold lines. When a fold is 'open', the sign column has pipe characters '|'. I looked at ...
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How to fold nested “if then else end if” statements
I try to write a vim syntax file for folding if-else statements with the syntax:
if <condition> then <block to fold> [else <block to fold>] end if
Current approach
syn region Then ...
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remove trailing dashes in foldtext
When I set foldtext to a simple value like getline(v:foldstart), vim should show the current line, as opposed to the usual + and appropriate number of hyphens - for the foldlevel. However, vim fills ...
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How can I reset all folds to the state when the editor started?
I have some configuration in my .vimrc governing the initial folding strategy. Sometimes, I am looking to restore the initial state and would like a :refold command or something, which restores the ...
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How to prevent markdown folding of # comments in fenced code?
I have python examples in a markdown file in a code fence (e.g. when I convert a jupyter notebook into a markdown document). These snippets sometimes have code comments in them starting with #. The ...
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How to make code-folding more efficient
I have a ruby file while is about 5K+ lines long.
My current setup uses the vim-ruby plugin.
With this, I enable code folding with
let ruby_fold = 1
This opens my ruby files pre-folded. I can open ...
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Only Open Folds With z Commands
If I navigate the first line of a folded function with h,l, etc it will open the fold. Navigating search matches with n will also open a fold if there is a match inside the fold.
Can you configure ...
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Use line's 'folded state' in a mapping, so it's `zc` closing but `zv` opening?
When I'm opening a fold, I would say 100% of the time the behaviour I want is zv - open all folds covering the current line, so that I can actually see it.
But zv won't close a fold.
How can I use ...
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Editing file in splits breaks the folding
My current workflow looks something like this:
Open a file in different splits, each split showing a different section
Make appropriate edits in each split
:wq from the split after editing
Repeat as ...
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Record all line-number fold-levels and restore fold-states (despite fold-level change)
I have found myself so extraordinarily frustrated with Vim's foldmethod=syntax behavior that I've contemplated dropping the editor entirely, despite being mostly happy with it for a few years now.
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Enable Expr Folding in Markdown
I want to fold in markdown using the built in markdown plugin that I believe should come with the version of vim I have (Vi IMproved 8.1 (2018 May 18, compiled Apr 23 2019 20:02:08)).
I am struggling ...
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Shuffle multiline folds
Suppose I have a bunch of folds for more than one line each. How to make shuffle them as folds not lines?
In case of lines it can be done by external shuf or any other command (see https://...
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Hide foldcolumn when no folds?
Currently I have set foldcolumn=1, but in a buffer with no folds, it's just a waste of space.
Is there a convenient event to listen to in order to automatically toggle it between 0 and 1 (or whatever ...
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Debugging foldexpr function
I have debug=msg,throw in my .vimrc.
When trying to debug a foldexpr function, the echom statements I use to print are ignored and are not accessible by :messages. Any way to make them work?
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Pattern not found: lastlevel = -1
I'm getting one or more of these message when I open up a file I fold with a custom foldexpr function:
Pattern not found: lastlevel = -1
I'm not sure what's generating except the lastlevel variable ...
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File is not folding when opened
Trying to figure out why folds aren't happening as soon as I open a file:
set foldenable
set foldmethod=expr
let g:lastnum = 0
function! FoldFile(lnum)
echom 'hi';
if getline(a:lnum) =~? '\v^\...
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custom fold expression to fold functions
I would like to create a custom fold expression for functions of the form
x <- function(a,b,c) {
...
... body
...
}
where the lines starting from function(...) until the closing brace are ...
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Is it possible to use newlines in a fold marker?
I am trying to set foldmarker={{{,\n\n\n, so that {{{ starts a fold and two consecutive empty lines end a fold. However, vim treats this as equivalent to foldmarker={{{,nnn. Is it possible to use ...
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Define a fold that can not be searched, and that isn't affected by other fold commands?
POD is a markup file that is used by Perl. It's a pretty unreasonable documentation format that has nothing to do with perl (accept for being the only known use-case), and it's sometimes found ...
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Is there a way to edit only part of a file?
Unlike many people who are looking for this, or a similar sort of feature, it's not actually the file size I care about, I just find myself needing to deal with a very specific section of a file - ...
