Hi, a few years ago I had to edit text files on a big iron (IBM) and a OS called "TCO" or such.
The editor was [CENSORED] but there was one feature I miss since then: One could hide lines matching or !matching a certain pattern. Any further edit actions were only executed with the visible lines as target. Regardless what you were doing -- only the visible lines were affected. You had to give the "unhide" command explicitely to return to "full text mode". There is a script snipped in the VimTips (#77) which does something like this, but the "hidden" lines are not protected or "really invisible until unhide"... Is there a way to mimic this feature with vim in any way ? Thank you very much for any help in advance! Have a nice weekend! mcc
