Re: Conceal evrything but selection

On 13.04.13,12:46, Ethan Hereth wrote:
> On Saturday, April 13, 2013, Jostein Berntsen wrote:
>
> > On 13.04.13,07:57, Ben Fritz wrote:
> > > On Saturday, April 13, 2013 6:54:05 AM UTC-5, jostber wrote:
> > > > I have not looked much into the conceal function, but it looks very
> > useful.
> > > >
> > > > Is it possible to set it up so that it can conceal everything in the
> > text
> > > >
> > > > except the selection by using a mappping?
> > > >
> > >
> > > Yes, it's possible, but probably not too easy. Conceal depends on syntax
> > highlighting which is mostly meant to be set up once and left alone. Your
> > mapping could do a :syn clear and then set up a rule to conceal everything
> > but a pattern match, though.
> > >
> > > Easier would be to use folding. Then you can fold away lines not
> > matching the pattern. You'd still have the entire line text where the
> > pattern matches, but with 'hlsearch' turned on, it's still easy to see
> > where your match is.
> > >
> > > http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Folding_with_Regular_Expression
> > >
> >
> > Thanks. I didn't get the fold search to work exactly as I wanted. Would
> > have
> > been interesting to what a conceal function might do here.
> >
> >
> > Jostein
> >
> > Jostein, while this doesn't exactly answer your question, Christian
> > Brabandt's Nrrwrgn plugin (https://github.com/chrisbra/NrrwRgn) does
> > something like that. Thought I'd just mention it.
>
>
> Ps. Sorry if this email is formatted oddly, I'm sending it from my phone.
>
>
> Ethan Alan
>

Wow, this looks great and might be just what I need. Thanks!

Jostein

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