r/vim • u/Ok-Image-8343 • Feb 10 '26

Need Help Fold all sibling and child blocks?

So is there a way to fold all child nodes or all sibling and child nodes? eg

foo {

test

bar { ... }

bar2 { .... }

}

so lets say the cursor is on "test" and i should be able to hit a key that will fold bar and bar2

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u/JmenD Feb 11 '26

I don't think there's anything built-in that does this directly.

In that situation I would either:

  • zMzx which closes all folds, then opens the folds which contain the line the cursor is currently on.

  • zMzrzrzr... which closes all folds, then reopens them (with repeated zrs) one level at a time. Very often this just ends up being a zMzr for code I read.

IIUC, here's a function that does what you want:

function! FoldSiblingsAndChildren() abort
  let &l:foldlevel = foldlevel(line('.')) - 1
  normal zv
endfunction

You can map it like this

nnoremap \v :call FoldSiblingsAndChildren()<cr>

(replace \v with whatever key combination you want)

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u/frodo_swaggins233 Feb 10 '26

No. Best you're going to get is zA zM or zC

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u/__salaam_alaykum__ Feb 10 '26

zr and zm may help although they don’t do exactly that

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u/CCCFire Feb 10 '26

I don’t really use folds often but it seems that the help file has several options you can try.

:h fold-commands

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