On 9/17/06, Meino Christian Cramer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,
a few years ago I had to edit text files on a big iron (IBM) and a OS
called "TCO" or such.
The editor was [CENSORED] but there was one feature I miss since
then:
One could hide lines matching or !matching a certain pattern. Any
further edit actions were only executed with the visible lines as
target. Regardless what you were doing -- only the visible lines were
affected. You had to give the "unhide" command explicitely to return
to "full text mode".
Tim gave you the solution (:foldd). But I think there is
one small problem with operating on non-folded lines;
not with Tim's solution but with folding in general.
Namely, you cannot fold single line.
So if you want to protect separate, single-standing
lines from :folddo, you cannot.
On the other hand, there is not limit on number of lines
*between* folds. You can perfectly have
1 line between folds. But you cannot have 1 line *in*
the fold.
It follows that there's certain asymmetry between operating
on unfolded lines vs operating on folded lines.
Yakov
