h
at the first non-blank character of a line (or before) to fold. Use l
anywhere on a folded line to unfold it.[^1] This allows you to ditch zc
, zo
, and za
– you can just use h
and l
to work with folds. (h
still moves left if not at the beginning of a line, and l
still moves right when on an unfolded line – this plugin basically "overloads" those keys.)-- lazy.nvim
{
"chrisgrieser/nvim-origami",
event = "BufReadPost", -- later or on keypress would prevent saving folds
opts = true, -- needed even when using default config
},
-- packer
use {
"chrisgrieser/nvim-origami",
config = function ()
require("origami").setup ({}) -- setup call needed
end,
}
The .setup()
call or lazy
's opts
is required. Otherwise the plugin works out of the box without any necessary further configuration.
-- default values
require("origami").setup ({
keepFoldsAcrossSessions = true,
pauseFoldsOnSearch = true,
setupFoldKeymaps = true,
})
Recommendation: By setting 'startofline' to true
, bigger movements move you to the start of the line, which works well with this plugin's h
key.
If you use other keys than h
and l
for vertical movement, set setupFoldKeymaps
to false and map the keys yourself:
require("origami").h()
require("origami").l()
Many formatting plugins will open all your folds and unfortunately, there is nothing this plugin can do about it. The only two tools that are able to preserve folds are the efm-language-server and conform.nvim.
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[^1]: Technically, unfolding with l
is already a built-in vim feature when foldopen
includes hor
. However, this plugin still sets up an l
key replicating that behavior, since the built-in version still moves you to one character to the side, which can be considered a bit counterintuitive.