Thus spake Gary Johnson on Mon, May 01, 2006 at 02:52:21PM -0700 or 
thereabouts: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-05-01 19:31]:
> On 2006-05-01, cga2000 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Thus spake Yakov Lerner on Mon, May 01, 2006 at 10:06:57PM +0300 or 
> > thereabouts: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-05-01 17:25]:
> > > On 5/1/06, Bill Pursell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > >
> > > >Is it possible to completely hide lines?  Something stronger than merely
> > > >folding.  In particular, I'd like to be able to display the buffer with
> > > >all lines containing "assert" hidden, or to hide lines between and
> > > >including #ifdef/#endif pairs.  Can that be done?
> > > 
> > > Piping the buffer text into temp. buffer through some sort
> > > of grep -v.
> > > 
> > 
> > could you be a little more specific - or provide a short example.. been
> > looking for something like this myself for some time..
> 
> I can't think of anything 'grep -v <pattern>' can do in this 
> situation that 'v/<patter>/d' can't, so here's one way to do this:
> 
>     gg"aYG
>     :new
>     "ap
>     :1d
>     :v/assert/d
> 
> HTH,
> Gary

Thanks, Gary.. 

:v (and :g) made my day..!

> 
> -- 
> Gary Johnson                 | Agilent Technologies
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]     | Wireless Division
>                              | Spokane, Washington, USA

Reply via email to