From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2004-11-09T11:31:55+09:00
Subject: Re: rdoc and vim folding

On Nov 8, 2004, at 5:58 PM, Gavin Sinclair wrote:

> On Tuesday, November 9, 2004, 12:47:07 PM, Gavin wrote:
>
>> On Tuesday, November 9, 2004, 12:43:34 PM, Ara wrote:
>
>>> On Tue, 9 Nov 2004, Gavin Sinclair wrote:
>
>>>> Isn't there a way to limit the number of folds created by
>>>> fm=indent?
>
>>> yes - but you can say do THIS and THAT level.  just a depth
>
>> Maybe the fm=syntax option, then?  I don't know anything about that,
>> but it sounds promising.
>
> Follow-up: it's not promising.  Vim's current syntax definition for
> Ruby (http://vim-ruby.rubyforge.org) does enable syntax-based folding,
> but it can't be selective about what it folds (i.e. classes and
> methods only, per Ara's request).
>
> The following settings should be OK:
>
>   set foldmethod=syntax
>   set foldnestmax=2        " or 3
>
> If anyone knows enough about Vim to make the folding smarter for Ruby
> files, please step forward :)

If you want to not fold on a particular syntax construct, you need only 
remove the 'fold' from the end of the 'syn region'.

:help syn-region should help you out.