On 17 Feb 2013, Erik Christiansen wrote: > > > Interesting, but why is it better than just marking a block in Visual > > and cutting and pasting it? > > A look back at my first post on this threadน shows that the top level > folded view provided a table of contents for the whole document, while > the closed folds in the opened "VIM:" fold provided an in-situ TOC for > that section. Since the (potentially) pages of text in a fold is already > presented as a line-equivalent unit, directly manipulable by simple > familiar vim commands, it would be a backward step to open the fold and > then begin to manually muck about constructing a matching visual block, > to define the text which is already defined by the fold. It is less > effort to use what is already there, neatly folded into one line. >
[snip] Sorry, I lost track of how this thread started. Yes, I see why folding is an advantage in this case, and I expect I shall use it to keep track of my own files that remind me of how to do things, as well as addresses etc. My last comment was relative to 'ordinary' text files, such as articles or books, although even there I can see a use for folding occasionally, e.g. for writing notes to myself and keeping track of deleted sections. The equivalent of marginal notes in the old days of typewriters. I don't know why I didn't think of that - I never found a use for folding previously. Thanks for making me reflect - you have probably improved my writing habits quite a bit. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk http://www.acampbell.org.uk http://www.reviewbooks.org.uk http://www.skepticviews.org.uk http://www.acupuncturecourse.org.uk http://www.smashwords.com/profile.view/acampbell https://itunes.apple.com/ca/artist/anthony-campbell/id73235412 -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
