Re: Collapse out all lines not matching "/pattern"?

My go-to for folding is vim-anyfold
<https://github.com/pseewald/vim-anyfold>. It just works™


*Igbanam*


On Sun, Jul 13, 2025 at 8:37 PM Gary Johnson <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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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