How to make search skip folded text?

How to make search skip folded text? Thanks..

How to get the number of occurances of a search pattern ?

When I do a search using / ,?,* or # how do I determine the number of matches of search pattern in the current buffer ? Thanks

How to fold text between two regular expressions ?

How do I create folds such that it starts at matched expression and ends at the line containing part of the matched expression. e.g i'd like to fold procedure xyz ( . : : : : : end xyz; function abc ( : : : : : end abc; impure function pqr ( : : : : : end pqr; Thanks in advance..