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Paste folded text

#1

You select folded text and copy-paste it. Is there any way to keep text folded, so it does not expand when you paste it.

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#2

I would like this as well, sometimes when trying to bring related functions closer I collapse all at some indent level and then want to just move around a whole folded thing while not expanding it afterwards.

Currently though I don’t think there is a workaround for it.

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#3

I’m using this plugin:

import sublime
import sublime_plugin


class PasteAndReindentCommand(sublime_plugin.TextCommand):
    def run(self, edit):
        before_selections = [sel for sel in self.view.sel()]
        self.view.run_command('paste')
        after_selections = [sel for sel in self.view.sel()]
        new_selections = list()
        delta = 0
        for before, after in zip(before_selections, after_selections):
            new = sublime.Region(before.begin() + delta, after.end())
            delta = after.end() - before.end()
            new_selections.append(new)
        self.view.sel().clear()
        self.view.sel().add_all(new_selections)
        self.view.run_command('reindent')

This was originally posted on this forum, but I can’t find the original post.

I bind this to ctrl+shift+v and text is selected when it’s pasted. Then you just need to fold it again.

But it would be nice to do that in one step xD

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#4

If that command pastes the way you want and leave selected text that you would like to be folded, try adding this line to the bottom of it:

self.view.run_command("fold")
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