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created October 20, 2005 · complexity intermediate · author i5513 · version 6.0
It doesn't work exactly like grep, but I hope it will useful for someone:
:set foldmethod=expr :set foldexpr=getline(v:lnum)!~\"regex\"
Now you can do zM and edit your grep result.
Remember zR to go back.
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Replace regexp with your actual regular expression of course.
:set foldexpr=getline(v:lnum)!~\"function.*load\"
Now you can actually edit in this mode/view (this is how this method differs from a :g/regexp/).
In addition, if you want to fold on your current search conditions, you can change the condition to be
:set foldexpr=getline(v:lnum)!~@/
Then, each time you search, you can simply refresh the folds with
:set foldmethod=expr
(which forces the folds to update to the new search expression; and can be easily mapped).