Howard Glynn wrote:
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I wondered whether there was a plugin somewhere that was able to
abbreviate or
partially hide the detail so i can see the overall structure more
clearly. In essence I
would like to collapse huge (single) lines of tags to something like
<a id="xyz"
href="/img ....... - where "...." implies I could expand if required.
I'm sure it is probably
possible to craft a plugin to do this, i just have some urgent
deadlines right now ;)
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Hello!
Sounds like Vince Negri's conceal patch to vim would come in handy for this.
Vim's current folding is on a line-by-line basis; Negri's patch can also
perform
concealing in lines.
You can get his patch at: http://vince.negri.googlepages.com/
Here's an example, although it may conceal more than what you've
requested...
if has("conceal")
if &conc == 0
let &conc= 3
endif
syn clear
syn region htmlTag conceal start="<" end=">"
endif
So this will conceal anything between <...> . One neat thing; even
though I've
selected conceal level 3, nonetheless, when your cursor is atop a line
that line
will *not* be concealed. So editing may proceed, as that's what Vim's for.
A more comprehensive (but not html-related) example of concealing is
available
at my website: see AnsiEsc.vim. This plugin will conceal ansi escape
codes and
perform proper colorizing of the text based on the concealed ansi codes.
Vince N has a tex.vim syntax using concealment, too, somewhere...
BTW, folks -- if more people than H Glynn would want this -- let Bram
know! He's under
the impression that its not wanted very much, which is why I presume its
not in vim 7.x.
Vince's patch also supports "ownsyntax". Read about it at his website.
Regards,
Chip Campbell
