On 2025-07-13, Joseph Wulf wrote:
> In regular/normal vim editing, is there a method to collapse out of view all
> lines NOT matching "/pattern"?
>
> Though I use vimdiff a lot, the only relevance to vimdiff is the way it
> collapses out lines not relevant to the differentiation process. So, when I'm
> using regular VIM, I'm wondering if there's a way to search for "/pattern"
> ---and--- only see matching lines? I also tend to have line numbers on a lot,
> which would greatly help me to focus on certain things.
I use the searchfold.vim plugin for this. It's available at these
places:
https://github.com/vim-scripts/searchfold.vim
https://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2521
It's 14 years old now, but it continues to "just work".
Regards,
Gary
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