Re: collapsing single lines of html tag attributes via plugin??
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
Re: collapsing single lines of html tag attributes via plugin??
On Fri, 1 Jun 2007 15:25:25 -0600, fREW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/1/07, Charles E Campbell Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sounds like Vince Negri's conceal patch to vim would come in handy for this. [snip] I would use conceal if it were in standard vim. Definitely. So would I. It's only nervousness at using unofficial patches that puts me off. I'd also be interested in a view-only mode that conceals characters in the current line as well, if that's possible. (I have some large report files for which I use Vim to colour the text for easy reading, but that means some space in the file is taken up with marker characters to trigger the highlighting. It'd be nice to be able to collapse all the markers.) -- Matthew Winn
collapsing single lines of html tag attributes via plugin??
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 -- -- Howard Glynn [ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] Edinburgh, UK
Re: collapsing single lines of html tag attributes via plugin??
Been a long long time vi user but bizarrely never made the jump to vim until quite recently. Welcome! 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. Well, since they can be slightly reformatted, as HTML generally ignores whitespace, you may be able to use an external tool like tidy to clean up the code so it's a bit easier to read. It should also help with normalizing the indentation. You may also be interested in reading about folding which collapses multiple lines into one: :help folding You can manually create folds to hide away particularly nettlesome segments if there are just a handful, or you can go for a more automated way of folding them. Folds are only line-wise rather than character-wise (though there is an vim patch floating around to also do column-wise folding...this is hearsay, as I've never tried it). Folding can be done by a variety of methods, defaulting to manual, but also allowing it to be done by syntax, by expression, or by indentation. Or even the manual folding can be done in a semi-automated fashion via a :g command such as :g/[^]*$/.,//fold which may be a good first place to start. If you used tidy and it has normalized indentation, you can just use :set foldmethod=indent and it may allow you to get a bird's-eye view of your code. 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. Another lazy option might just be to visually hide it with something like :match Ignore /\_[^]*/ which will just hide all the tags (making them background-color on background-color). This is dangerous if you start editing and treat them like you would treat whitespace, but it can help make your content pop. Or you might try /\s*\w\+\s\+\zs\_[^]*/ which will just discolor your attribtes. If you want to see them but make them more subdued, you can opt for a different highlighting group than Ignore, something like :match Comment /.../ where, at least in my setup, Comment is dark grey on black which allows me to see it, but it isn't quite as intrusive. When done, you can un-:match them with :match none You can read all about this at :help :match 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. You have Vim...what more do you need? ;-) Hope this gives you some ideas with which to work... -tim
Re: collapsing single lines of html tag attributes via plugin??
Howard Glynn wrote: In essence I would like to collapse huge (single) lines of tags to something like a id=xyz href=/img ... There is a simple solution, maybe too simple, but... if you only have one tag per line, or if you can reformat your file in such a way, it might be enough to disable line wrap: :set nowrap You can map a function key to toggling line wrap: :map F9 :set wrap!CR Type that literally, with and everything, or put it into ~/.vimrc HTH Tobia
Re: collapsing single lines of html tag attributes via plugin??
Howard Glynn wrote: snip 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 ;) snip Hello! Sounds like Vince Negri's conceal patch to vim would come in handy for this. Vim's current folding is on a line-by-line basis; Negri's patch can also perform concealing in lines. You can get his patch at: http://vince.negri.googlepages.com/ Here's an example, although it may conceal more than what you've requested... if has(conceal) if conc == 0 let conc= 3 endif syn clear syn region htmlTag conceal start= end= endif So this will conceal anything between ... . One neat thing; even though I've selected conceal level 3, nonetheless, when your cursor is atop a line that line will *not* be concealed. So editing may proceed, as that's what Vim's for. A more comprehensive (but not html-related) example of concealing is available at my website: see AnsiEsc.vim. This plugin will conceal ansi escape codes and perform proper colorizing of the text based on the concealed ansi codes. Vince N has a tex.vim syntax using concealment, too, somewhere... BTW, folks -- if more people than H Glynn would want this -- let Bram know! He's under the impression that its not wanted very much, which is why I presume its not in vim 7.x. Vince's patch also supports ownsyntax. Read about it at his website. Regards, Chip Campbell
Re: collapsing single lines of html tag attributes via plugin??
On 6/1/07, Charles E Campbell Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Howard Glynn wrote: snip 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 ;) snip Hello! Sounds like Vince Negri's conceal patch to vim would come in handy for this. Vim's current folding is on a line-by-line basis; Negri's patch can also perform concealing in lines. You can get his patch at: http://vince.negri.googlepages.com/ Here's an example, although it may conceal more than what you've requested... if has(conceal) if conc == 0 let conc= 3 endif syn clear syn region htmlTag conceal start= end= endif So this will conceal anything between ... . One neat thing; even though I've selected conceal level 3, nonetheless, when your cursor is atop a line that line will *not* be concealed. So editing may proceed, as that's what Vim's for. A more comprehensive (but not html-related) example of concealing is available at my website: see AnsiEsc.vim. This plugin will conceal ansi escape codes and perform proper colorizing of the text based on the concealed ansi codes. Vince N has a tex.vim syntax using concealment, too, somewhere... BTW, folks -- if more people than H Glynn would want this -- let Bram know! He's under the impression that its not wanted very much, which is why I presume its not in vim 7.x. Vince's patch also supports ownsyntax. Read about it at his website. Regards, Chip Campbell I would use conceal if it were in standard vim. Definitely. -- -fREW
