How do I open folds one level at a time in Vim without revealing all nested folds at once?
zr
zr ("reduce" fold level) decrements the global foldlevel option by 1, opening the next layer of folds across the entire file.
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How do I open or close folds one level at a time across the entire file?
zr and zm
The zr and zm commands let you incrementally adjust the global fold depth across the entire buffer — one level at a time.
How do I open or close every fold in the entire file at once?
zR and zM
When working with a heavily folded file, manually opening or closing each fold is tedious.
How do I close one more level of folds without collapsing all folds at once?
zm
Instead of jumping between fully open (zR) and fully closed (zM), zm and zr let you step through fold levels one at a time.
How do I toggle a fold and all its nested folds open or closed at once?
zA
The zA command toggles the fold under the cursor together with all nested sub-folds in one keystroke.
How do I automatically fold code based on indentation level?
:set foldmethod=indent
Setting foldmethod=indent tells Vim to create folds based on the indentation level of each line.
How do I control how many fold levels are open when first opening a file?
set foldlevelstart=N
When Vim opens a file with folds enabled, it uses the foldlevelstart option to decide how many fold levels to open automatically.
How do I open all nested folds under the cursor at once in Vim?
zO
zO (uppercase O) opens the fold under the cursor and all folds nested inside it recursively.
How do I close all folds and then open just the one containing the cursor to focus on it?
zMzv
The zMzv sequence collapses every fold in the file and then re-opens only the one containing your cursor.
How do I open just enough folds to see the current line without expanding everything?
zv
zv (view cursor) opens the minimum number of folds needed to make the current line visible — nothing more.
How do I open or close a fold and all its nested folds at once?
zO and zC
zO and zC are the recursive counterparts to zo and zc.
How do I force Vim to recompute all folds in the current window?
zx
The zx command resets and recomputes all folds in the current window based on the current foldmethod.
How do I enable LSP and treesitter-powered code folding in Neovim with nvim-ufo?
:lua require('ufo').openAllFolds()
nvim-ufo is a Neovim plugin that replaces the built-in fold system with one powered by LSP (textDocument/foldingRange) or treesitter.
How do I jump between folds in Vim without opening them?
zj and zk
How it works When working with folded code in Vim, you often want to skip from one fold to another without unfolding anything.
How do I create custom folds to collapse specific sections of code?
zf{motion}
Vim supports several fold methods, but manual folding with zf gives you precise control over exactly which lines to collapse.
How do I toggle all folding on and off globally with a single keystroke?
zi
Pressing zi in normal mode toggles the foldenable option, which controls whether folds are active in the current window.
How do I use Treesitter-aware code folding in Neovim for accurate fold regions based on syntax?
vim.treesitter.foldexpr()
Neovim's built-in Treesitter integration includes vim.
How do I fold and unfold sections of code to hide details I'm not working on?
zf / zo / zc / za
Vim's folding system lets you collapse blocks of code into a single line, hiding the details so you can focus on the structure.
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How do I save multiple different views of the same file with independent fold and cursor states?
:mkview 2 and :loadview 2
Vim supports up to 9 numbered view slots per file.
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