Re: Folding

On 2011-06-03, Eric Weir wrote:
> On Jun 2, 2011, at 10:36 AM, Gary Johnson wrote:
>
> > I don't like all that clutter in the fold line, either, but I do
> > like to see the number of lines in the fold, so I modified the
> > appearance of the fold line with this in my ~/.vimrc.
> >
> > set foldtext=MyFoldText()
> >
> > " MyFoldText()
...
> > You could do something similar to get the appearance you want. I
> > wrote it before the repeat() function was available, so it could
> > probably be rewritten with five fewer lines today.
>
> Thanks, Gary. As I mentioned in my original post on this thread,
> I'm not a programmer. I think I understand what this does, but
> from your description, not the code. As I understand it eliminates
> all text except the number of lines. I want to eliminate the
> number of lines and keep the text from the first line of the fold.
> And I have absolutely no idea how to go about revising the code to
> make it do what I want.

The example at the top of ":help fold-foldtext" does that. (The
line beginning ":set foldtext=v:folddashes...") Try that and see if
it does what you want.

Regards,
Gary

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