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simplefold is a small vim script that improves (for some definition of "improve", see the description + screenshots below) on other folding methods (syntax, marker, indent, expr). It was originally written for Ruby, but now also supports Objective Caml, PHP, Perl and Java. It features:

• optimized vertical space usage
• sensible foldtext
• top-level folds: one per interesting definition. No need to open a class fold to see which methods it contains. Get a quick overview of the classes/methods/functions (whatever applies in the current filetype) with zM.
• optional nested folds for if/while and so on
• easy to adapt to other filetypes; just by setting 2-3 regexps

simplefold 0.5.0 introduces Objective Caml, Perl and PHP support, a few bugfixes and a new way to define fold boundaries.

Getting it

The last tarball is simplefold-0.5.0.tar.gz.

You can also access the darcs repository (you can explore it from your browser too) at http://eigenclass.org/repos/simplefold .

simplefold vs. fold_syntax

Both images correspond to the same files; I've timed them carefully to show equivalent views (top-level, class-level, method-level) at a time (you might have to reload the page to make sure they play synchronously). The first one is fdm=syntax, the second is simplefold's