Re: How to "filter" a plaintext pattern in a separate fullpage buffer to work on it separately ?

On Thursday, November 1, 2012 12:02:18 PM UTC-5, tjg wrote:
> Thanks for your answer.
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> In fact I simply want to suppress errors manually, so, no need for
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> automation, nor AI.
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> All I wish is to have the possibility :
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> - to "filter" the relevant lines into a full-page buffer (and not a window
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> at the bottom of the screen)
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> - ... as if all the other lines had disappeared
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> - where I can see them with their highlighting preserved
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> - where I can modify them efficiently by concentrating on one pattern at a
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> time
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> - and then go back to the file and find the lines as modified by me in the
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> "filtering buffer".
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OK, so you don't want to actually get a new scratch buffer.

Try :tab split followed by this:

http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Folding_with_Regular_Expression

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