On Wednesday, March 7, 2012 10:23:25 PM UTC-5, Timothy Knox wrote:
> Somewhere on Shadow Earth, at Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 09:09:51PM -0600, Tim 
> Chase wrote:
> > On 03/07/12 20:51, Govind wrote:
> > > Btw, I've been using the ISPF editor for many years now, and
> > > that's no picnic either for people coming from a WYSIWYG
> > > environment!  I've yet to find its handy feature of being able
> > > to hide lines (Xing them out) in any PC text editor.
> > 
> > While I'm not familiar with ISPF, this sounds a lot like Vim's 
> > "folding" feature, allowing you to fold away sections of text by 
> > a variety of means (syntax, indentation, markers, or an 
> > expression that gets evaluated).  So if you ever miss it, be sure 
> > to drop by
> > 
> >    :help folding
> > 
> > and read about all the fun you could be having. :-)
> 
> Having used both ISPF and vim, I can say that that is a correct
> statement. Vim's folding is exactly analogous to ISPF's hiding.
> -- 
> 
> "The mountains of madness have many little plateaus of sanity."
>     -- Terry Pratchett, _The Truth_

In which case it will be interesting to see if I can do the command sequence
x all; f all 'search string'
that is incredibly useful when editing cobol programs or mainframe files, i.e. 
show me only the lines that satisfy the search criteria.

I don't see any need for it right now, just curious.

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