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 can I perform conditional text folding in Vim
I would like to fold all text in between "mytext" and "end mytext", For example:
mytext
...
...
end mytext
or between an open parenthesis and closing parenthesis
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How ...
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Basic question with folding and foldmethod=indent
I am confused about folding. I am trying to use the foldmethod=indent method, and my setup is as follows:
Now when I try to close all folders with zC I get this, which is as expected:
However when I ...
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How can I search only actual differences in vimdiff?
Basically I need to search only in areas marked red, not pink (in the default color scheme).
All I can find is how to search the unfolded areas. This is not very useful to me. I have long lines which ...
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Folding lists in vimwiki with custom folding enabled
vimwiki's help docs, and this answer, both explain how
setting g:vimwiki_folding='list' in my vimrc enables list folding for vimwiki files. This lets me use vim's native folding methods on vimwiki ...
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Prevent help page folds from being lost
When I open a help page, create a manual fold, set bufhidden=hide and buflisted, then navigate away from that page, the fold is not restored upon returning.
$ vim -u NONE
:help
" create a manual ...
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Syntax region doesn't stop at the correct end marker
I'm trying to set up folding for #pragma region in C/C++, and it kinda works, but I need to edit out #pragma from the cPreProc syntax region, which is definitely not ideal. If I don't edit it out, the ...
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How to get or operate on the current fold under the cursor?
I have some text that is folded, and I would like to operate on the entire fold (e.g. with y), agnostic of what kind of fold it is and how it is defined.
Is there some general function to obtain the ...
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Automatically load & save folds of files - except for help files
My current solution to automatically load & save views of a file is the following:
" automatically saves & loads folds when closing or opening a file
set viewoptions-=options
augroup ...
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Fold swagger verb properties
I have to edit regularly swagger JSON files to add a x-amazon-apigateway-integration property, files looks like:
{
"openapi": "3.0.0",
"info": {
"version&...
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How to unfold lines in ex mode?
1,100fo can fold lines from beginning to 100th line in ex mode,i can unfold the lines in normal mode with zo and just click enter to expand it in insert mode,now how can unfold it in ex mode?1,100nofo ...
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sass folding syntax
i have foldmethod=indent on a .sass file. it auto-folds most blocks fine, except for #id selectors, which it folds into the block above it. for example:
:root // folds 3 lines below
--base-bg: #...
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What is corrupting my folds? And, more importantly, how can I fix it?
From time to time, I'll open up a document in vim and find that my manual folds are completely messed up. It's like vim decides to ignore its usual markers and, instead, start interpreting random bits ...
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How to unfold lines in insert mode?
zo can open folded lines in normal mode. What if I'm in insert mode?
For example:
line1
line2
Fold it with :1,2fold in ex mode; now, the cursor is in the beginning of line1. Then press o to switch to ...
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Adding a syntax group to support fold markers with foldmethod=syntax
With foldmethod=syntax, is it possible to create a syntax group that matches my fold markers, so that i can use both language-specific syntax folding and whatever markers might already be in my code?
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Keep open fold open on `o`
I have a file with foldmethod=indent. I have the folds automatically open when I enter them, and close when I leave them. When I sit in Normal mode on the bottom line of a fold and press o, the fold ...
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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 ...
