On 03/20/2011 12:19 PM, sanjay ravat wrote:
I am relatively new to vim. I need to inspect log files that run into thousands of lines. Each line starts with a timestamp. How can I fold the logs based on timestamp?
It would help to have (1) an excerpt of the log-file (possibly redacted, leaving at least the date information) to show the date-format, and (2) what you expect to fold by (year? day? hour? minute? second?). As a starting point, you'll want to
:set foldmethod=expr :set foldexpr=magic_expression_derived_from_info_you_provide You can read up at :help 'foldmethod' :help 'foldexpr' -tim -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
