Re: collapsing single lines of html tag attributes via plugin??

[Howard Glynn]

Thanks to those taking the time to post some responses on this question.

I found Tobia's suggestion to map a wrapping toggle onto a function key
extremely helpful - thanks, i'm using it now. Sometimes the simple ones
are the best :-)

I've also investigating folding a bit more thoroughly in the vim context and
that has helped too.

Conceal sounds like a good patch I will look into that when my deadlines
get a bit easier, I don't really want to start trying to break my environment
or getting distracted recompiling at this point, maybe in a few weeks.

Cheers, Howard

collapsing single lines of html tag attributes via plugin??

[Howard Glynn]

Hi all, first post.

Been a long long time vi user but bizarrely never made the jump to vim
until quite recently.

I'm editing a lot of complex html/cake-php thtml templates at the
moment and despite
useful color highlighting I'm finding it quite difficult to see the
wood for the trees due to
the complex templates i have to edit. Typically for example, I've got
tags with just
about every possible attribute populated stretching over 3-4 lines
sometimes. Imagine
that embedded in huge multi level tables with specific tags I'm
stuck with the
templates to adhere to corporate style.

I wondered whether there was a plugin somewhere that was able to abbreviate or
partially hide the detail so i can see the overall structure more
clearly. In essence I
would like to collapse huge (single) lines of tags to something like
a id=xyz
href=/img ... - where  implies I could expand if required.
I'm sure it is probably
possible to craft a plugin to do this, i just have some urgent
deadlines right now ;)

For lots of boring reasons I don't have the option of funky graphical
html editors or
environments - i'm in a remote shell using vim in text mode.

Apologies if this is in the plugins, i wasn't quite sure what terms to
search for. Hope
what I wrote makes sense and someone recognises it!

Howard


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