Re: How to keep folds intact when the file is sent over mail

Hi Tim!

On Do, 21 Mär 2013, Tim Chase wrote:

> On 2013-03-21 00:15, sheetal wrote:
> > I don't konw if this is possible, but i've a text file on which
> > i've applied fold cmd using the marks, Now when i send the file to
> > over email, I want to keep the fold intact so that the other person
> > viewing the file should also see the folds, Current behaviour is
> > the person viewing the file will see all the fold extended and also
> > if we try fold using 'zc' Error saying fold not defined pops up.
> > Any pointers on this would be appreciated.
>
> You'd need to coordinate your configurations. You say that you're
> using "marks", which I presume means you're using fold markers
> (":set foldmethod=marker", note that you might have to also change
> 'commentstring' to something appropriate for the language you're
> using) rather than "set foldmethod=manual".
>
> According to
>
> :help fold-marker
>
> you can manually specify the fold-level after the markers. You can
> then have the other person set the fold-method to "marker" and then
> use "zM" to close all the folds you want closed. This gets pretty
> close to what you want, though it breaks down if you want to send
> folds that don't get closed.

I am not exactly sure, since I have never used it, but using :mkview
should create a script that when applied by the other user, he should be
able to view it exactly like the author did see it.

regards
Christian
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