Re: Using Vim as a Browser Bookmark Manager - Auto Recursive Folding

Lifepillar,


On 2018-11-16 18:26, Lifepillar wrote:
> On 2018-11-15, Philip Rhoades <phil@pricom.com.au> wrote:
>> People,
>>
>> Since the Bookmark Managers in different browsera generally drive me
>> crazy - because they can never do everything what I want, I am going
>> to
>> experiment with a Bookmarks plain text file that I can manage in Vim -
>> I
>> can start a browser with a new tab from Vim when the cursor is over an
>> URL - so if I can get the auto folding working I should have
>> everything
>> I need. If I have a structure like:
>>
>> FOLDER aaa
>> FOLDER aaa-1
>> URL 1
>> URL 2
>> URL 3
>> URL 4
>> FOLDER aaa-2
>> URL 5
>> URL 6
>> URL 7
>> URL 8
>> FOLDER aaa-2-1
>> URL 9
>> URL 10
>> URL 11
>> URL 12
>> FOLDER aaa-3
>> URL 13
>> URL 14
>> URL 15
>> URL 16
>> URL 17 # ie directly under folder "aaa"
>> URL 18 # ie directly under folder "aaa"
>> URL 19 # ie directly under folder "aaa"
>> URL 20 # ie directly under folder "aaa"
>> FOLDER bbb
>> FOLDER bbb-1
>> URL 21
>> URL 22
>> URL 23
>> URL 24
>>
>> - the auto folding would have to allow for nesting so a fold would
>> start
>> on the word "FOLDER" and continue to the last line before the next
>> word
>> "FOLDER" with the same level of indentation or until a change of
>> indentation occurs.
>>
>> Suggestions about how to do this?
>
> You may try my Outlaw plugin:
>
> https://github.com/lifepillar/vim-outlaw
>
> with g:outlaw_topic_mark set to 'FOLDER'.
>
> The plugin is ~250 LoC: you may browse the source code, in particular
> how foldexpr is defined, to see how to define a folding function that
> does what you ask.


Thanks for that! - I will have a look at it.

Regards,

Phil.


> Hope this helps!
> Life
>
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E-mail: phil@pricom.com.au

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