Reply to message «Re: [PATCH] foldexpr for help files», sent 19:31:35 04 August 2011, Thursday by Bram Moolenaar:
> Help files are best viewed without folding. There is a table of > contents with tags at the start. Folding might give a bit of an > overview, but it requires opening and closing folds. Perhaps some > people will like it. I use it for editing help files (don't remember why I touched &fdm when writing a patch, I personally set it only when help file is editable and not in a help buffer). I think it will be good if you remove everything that mentions foldmethod and include this patch. Original message: > Nikolai Weibull wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 00:08, Nikolai Weibull <n...@bitwi.se> wrote: > > > On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 18:34, ZyX <zyx....@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> The following patch adds foldexpr option that will fold sections > > >> separated by sequences of `=' (foldlevel=1) and `-' (foldlevel=2). > > > > > > Whats the general practice for this? Do we set foldexpr from > > > ftplugin files, or is that up to the user to add to after/ftplugin? > > > > Bram, can you please weigh in on this? > > Only when folding is really something that is a logical thing to use for > a certain filetype should it be included by default. In nearly all > situations it should be an optional feature that is enabled by the user. > > Help files are best viewed without folding. There is a table of > contents with tags at the start. Folding might give a bit of an > overview, but it requires opening and closing folds. Perhaps some > people will like it.
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