On Sun, 17 Sep 2006 at 9:03pm, Yakov Lerner wrote: > 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.
That is not true, you can have one line folded, however the default value of 'foldminlines' is 1, which means single-line folds are never shown as closed. You can however set this to 0. -- HTH, Hari > > 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 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
