Vim - Folding

Fold functionality will be useful when file contents large text. Using this feature we can only show selected potion of file. This feature is particularly useful while working with programming languages. In this chapter, we will discuss following items −

• Activate and deactivate fold functionality
• Various fold actions

Fold activation and deactivation

To activate fold use following command −

:set foldenable 
:set foldmethod = indent

To deactivate fold use following command

:set nofoldenable

Fold actions

Close fold

To fold code, go to any method and execute following command −

zc

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Open fold

To open fold use following command −

zo

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Close all folds

To close all folds execute following command

zM

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Unfold all

To unfold all execute following −

zR

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