[Vimoutliner] confused about folds

[Steve Litt]

On Monday 28 August 2006 06:45 pm, Ross Boylan wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-08-28 at 18:18 -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
> [nice explanation snipped]
>
> > In summary, VO's headline expand and collapse keystrokes don't
> > necessarily reflect the concepts of outlining, but they sure are
> > convenient. I think they're brilliant.
>
> That's a good guide.  I started wondering about this because I wanted,
> effectively, to apply folding levels to a subpart of an outline.  For
> example, given
> A
>    B
>       C
>          D
>             E
>       F
>          G
>          H
>
> suppose I want to move to
> A
>    B
>      C
>      F
> with the rest folded (where this is part of bigger outline, so I can't
> just set the foldlevel globally).  Is there a good way to do that?

Hi Ross,

I bet dollars to donuts there's a way, but I couldn't find it. Try :h fold and 
read all the docs and experiment -- U might find a way. That's the way I 
figured out the comment method of body text.

If you can't find a way, ask the list what keystroke command they think should 
do that, and then create a Vim language function to do it. If U can't do 
that, remind me in late September when I have more time, and I can do it. By 
the way, look over Noel's Vim code -- there's a lot of really good stuff in 
there. Whenever I want to do something in Vim code, I find some of Noel's 
code that does something similar, and hack it til it does what I want.

HTH

SteveT
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