Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Re: Moving a fold? [Was: A mile of dashes added to foldtext]

On 01.08.11 13:18, Ben Fritz wrote:
> On Aug 1, 6:40 am, Erik Christiansen <dva...@internode.on.net> wrote:
> > Perhaps there is a "to end of fold" motion, to use with d, even though I
> > don't see one in motion.txt.
>
> Most operations done on a closed fold will act on all lines within the
> fold. For example, if you have a big 1234-line fold, close the fold
> and press "dd" on the foldtext as if you were deleting just one line.
> The entire folded text will be deleted, ready to put elsewhere.

Oooh, that is just cooler than menthol. :-))

> If you need more fine-grained control, you're also right to think of a
> "to end of fold" motion. ]z does exactly this, if the cursor is inside
> an open fold. [z similarly goes to the start of the open fold. You can
> also move between folds with zj/zk.

Ah, yes, I should have looked in ":h folds" as well as motion.

The folding feature is a delight, with those motions, and the power of
"dd". Very, _very_ nice. :-))

Now that we have it, I wouldn't give it up for the weight of emacs in
pizza.

Thank you for leading this horse to water.

Erik

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looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.
- Poul Anderson

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