Hi AK! On Mi, 05 Okt 2011, AK wrote:
> On 10/05/2011 04:11 PM, Christian Brabandt wrote: > >Hi AK! > > > >On Mi, 05 Okt 2011, AK wrote: > > > >>On 10/05/2011 03:36 PM, Christian Brabandt wrote: > >>>Hi AK! > >>> > >>>On Mi, 05 Okt 2011, AK wrote: > >>> > >>>>On 10/05/2011 02:41 PM, Christian Brabandt wrote: > >>>>>On Mi, 05 Okt 2011, AK wrote: > >>>>>>Hi, I want to have an overview of code without comments or > >>>>>>docstrings, with their lines completely omitted when in > >>>>>>conceal mode, without showing them as blank lines. > >>>>>> > >>>>>>How can I do that? > >>>>> > >>>>>You can't. Use folding to hide them away. > >>>>> > >>>>Wow, why is conceal so bizarrely hindered? Even before > >>>>conceal feature was created, I've often thought that it > >>>>would be extremely useful to temporarily conceal some > >>>>types of lines. > >>> > >>>Well you can hide away lines, but I think you won't be able to > >>>completely hide away the new line character. This makes sense, as for > >>>this folding can be used. > >> > >> > >>Well, here's an example: > >> > >># comment > >>code > >># comment > >># second line > >>code > >># comment > >>code > >> > >>I want to have: > >> > >>code > >>code > >>code > >> > >>Folding cannot do that because it does not conceal, it only folds. > > > >Close enough: > >:setl foldenable foldmethod=expr foldminlines=0 > >foldexpr=getline(v:lnum)=~'^#'?1:0 foldtext=v:folddashes foldlevel=0 > >fillchars-=fold:- > > > >which makes it: > >- > >code > >- > >code > >- > >code > > Well, I already did use 'invisible' folds to do > similar type of hiding, but I was really excited > about conceal feature because I thought it would > be able to conceal lines. > > The reason I want to get rid of those lines is that > you can read a lot more code in the same window > and it makes it much, much easier to do code review > without jumping back and forth. > > So, it's really odd to me that conceal does not work > for lines. It seems like the most useful part of > conceal is handicapped by design. > > Is it possible to make a small change to the vim > code to allow this? I would not mind compiling my > own version of Vim to allow this even though the > patch will need to be applied on every upgrade. > > I don't have experience with C or editing Vim code > so it would be really helpful if someone told me > if it would be easy to add and where I should start. > > I would be willing to spend a few hours on this, > but if it's going to be harder than that, I'll just > use folding and syntax highlight to make folds > invisible. I think this is harder then it sounds, because concealing is hard to get right, has some nasty corner cases and the concealing code still has some bugs (see :h todo.txt). So I don't think this is likely to change anytime soon. regards, Christian -- 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
