Re: Gurus - does/can Vim have a functionality resembling Info?

On 16 Feb 2013, Erik Christiansen wrote:
> On 16.02.13 20:48, Philip Rhoades wrote:
> > Thanks for all that - I was familiar with a some of it. I ended up using
> > the VOom plugin which makes use of a lot what you suggested but in a nice
> > two panel setup - allows easy block shuffling around etc.
>
> It's worth noting that Vim provides easy block shuffling without further
> ado. Just close a fold with zc, then cut it with dd (whatever its length
> in lines, it's treated as one while closed.), then paste with p
> somewhere else in the document. If you want to move three consecutive
> closed folds, use 3dd.
>
> That suffices for me, zooming multi-page multi-level nested folds around
> a 300+ page document - effortlessly. It has transformed my editing, and
> the quality of the structure of the document.
>
> Erik
>


Interesting, but why is it better than just marking a block in Visual
and cutting and pasting it?

Anthony

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