Folding in vim

[Ron Adam]

Terry Hancock wrote:

> My general attitude towards IDEs and editors has been 
> extremely conservative, but today I decided to see what 
> this "folding" business was all about.
> 
> I see that vim (and gvim, which is what I actually use)
> has this feature, and it is fairly nice, but at present it's
> very manual --- and frankly it's hard for me to see the
> point if I have to manually mark folds every time I start
> up.

I been trying to learn and use the 'Cream' distribution of Vim.

     http://cream.sourceforge.net/

Playing around with it a bit....

If I highlight any block of code... then press F9 it folds it.  Put the 
cursor on the fold and pressing F9 again unfolds it.  It remembers the 
folds, so putting the cursor anywhere in the previous folded area and 
pressing F9 again refolds the fold.  Folds can be inside of folds.

Saving the file exiting and reopening it... the folded folds remained 
folded.  I'm not sure where it keeps the fold info for the file.

The folds don't have anything to do with classes or functions, but are 
arbitrary selected lines, with the first line displayed after the number 
of lines folded.  So a whole file gets reduced to...

   1 # SliderDialog.py
   2
   3 +--- 20 lines: """ SIMPLE SLIDER DIALOG -------------------------
  23
  24 +-- 24 lines: # Imports------------------------------------------
  48
  49 +-- 13 lines: # Values extracted from win32.com------------------
  62
  63 +-- 67 lines: class SliderDialog(dialog.Dialog):-----------------
130
131 +--  4 lines: def GetSliderInput( title, text, label, value=0 ):-
135
136 +-- 17 lines: if __name__ == '__main__':-------------------------
153

Pretty cool, I'll probably use folding more now that I've played with it 
a bit.

I like Vim-Cream,  but I still haven't gotten the script right for 
executing the current file in the shell.  And a second script for 
executing the current file in the shell and capturing the output in a 
pane.  I think some of it may be windows path conflicts.

Ron