SortFolds

Overview

(Demo \w SimpylFold, colorscheme xoria256)

Sorting folds is not easily possible in vanilla vim. You could join all lines in a fold, sort and split them up again; however, it is time consuming and tedious.

This little plugin solves that issue: It sorts a visually selected region while keeping closed folds intact. Since folds can be created in a variety of ways, it is therefore straight-forward to sort arbitrary groups of text based on their first line.

One use-case (demonstrated above and the original motivation for this plugin) is to sort functions alphabetically after the fact.

Furthermore, it is possible to sort based on a other lines than then first.

Installation

SortFolds is compatible with most plugin managers for vim. Just drop the following line in your .vimrc:

Plugin 'obreitwi/vim-sort-folds' (for Vundle)

Plug 'obreitwi/vim-sort-folds' (for vim-plug)

Mappings

Per default, sorting visually selected folds is mapped to <leader>sf, if available, but can be easily remapped.

Note: manual foldmethod

This plugin was not tested and is not expected to work with foldmethod set to manual for now.

Python 3

vim-sort-folds is now Python 3 compatible. The last Python 2 compatible commit is still available as tag last-py2.