Re: [vox-tech] serendipity with vim

[Ken Bloom <kabloom@MAPSucdavis.edu>]

Run gvim - there's a whole menu with the fold commands they work in vim,  
but it will be easier to learn them by looking at the menu.

If you :set foldmethod=indent, then you can just open and close predefined  
folds that correspond roughly to your syntax (assuming you indent  
properly). I haven't gotten foldmethod=syntax to work though.

On 2004.04.02 06:16, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> heh.  at 6:15 in the morning, it blew my mind.  it took a few seconds to
> register what was going on.
>
> if anybody has any vim tips they'd like to share, i'd love to see a
> thread of people's favorite vim tricks.
>
> here's another one i learned just recently:
>
>
> 1 one
> 2 two
> 3 three
> 4 four
> 5 five
> 6 six
> 7 seven
> 8 eight
> 9 nine
>
> use line highlighting (shift v) and highlight lines 4, 5, and 6.
> type "zf".
> you've now "folded" lines 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6:
>
> 1 one
> +--  5 lines: 2----------------------------------------------------
> 7 seven
> 8 eight
> 9 nine
>
> now use line highlighting to to highlight the first 4 lines.
> type "zf"
> you've now folded the first four line:
>
> +--  8 lines: 1----------------------------------------------------
> 9 nine
>
> place the cursor somewhere on the fold.
> type "zo" to unfold:
>
> 1 one
> +--  5 lines: 2----------------------------------------------------
> 7 seven
> 8 eight
> 9 nine
>
> place the cursor somewhere on the fold.
> type "zo" to unfold again:
>
> 1 one
> 2 two
> 3 three
> 4 four
> 5 five
> 6 six
> 7 seven
> 8 eight
> 9 nine
>
>
> really great for programming.  one of the uses is when i'm editing a
> function and need to see another function that's way down in the source
> file.  i can bring them "close together" by folding.
>
> previously, i either moved the functions using block cut and copy (ick)
> or by using vim's marks (better, but still ick).
>
>
> zf: fold the highlighted selection.  it can take movement commands too,
>    like "zf}" to fold the next paragraph.
>
> zo: open a fold.  the cursor must be on top of the proper fold.
>
> zc: refold the last fold.
>
> what would be nice is if we could have "named folds", like named
> registers or named marks.
>
>
> wouldn't mind hearing other people's tips....   :-)
>
> pete
>
>
>
> On Fri 02 Apr 04,  4:43 AM, Issac Trotts <ijtrotts@ucdavis.edu> said:
> > On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 03:18:36AM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> > > it turns out that vim knows what an URL is, and will download the  
> file
> > > pointed to by that URL.  another vim coolity.
> >
> > Thanks for the tip!
> >
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> >
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