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. -- 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
