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When I jump to line (:76) I end up on a fold, but it doesn't open.

I can quickly unfold the fold and it gets to the right line, but I want to have the fold unfold automatically to save keystrokes.

Is there a way this can be achieved?

hakunin
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The foldopen setting controls which commands will open folds. In :help 'foldopen' we can see the list of possible values:

            item            commands
            all             any
            block           "(", "{", "[[", "[{", etc.
            hor             horizontal movements: "l", "w", "fx", etc.
            insert          any command in Insert mode
            jump            far jumps: "G", "gg", etc.
            mark            jumping to a mark: "'m", CTRL-O, etc.
            percent         "%"
            quickfix        ":cn", ":crew", ":make", etc.
            search          search for a pattern: "/", "n", "*", "gd", etc.
                            (not for a search pattern in a ":" command)
                            Also for [s and ]s.
            tag             jumping to a tag: ":ta", CTRL-T, etc.
            undo            undo or redo: "u" and CTRL-R

From reading the documentation you'd expect that set foldopen+=jump would do the trick, but it doesn't work for :76, only 76G. I'm not sure if this is intentional or a bug in Vim.

Using set foldopen=all does work correctly; but may have unwanted side-effects (specifically, you can no longer move "over" a fold with j and k).

Martin Tournoij
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    :76 is not considered a "jump" in vim and is not remembered in the jumplist (:jumps). 76G on the other hand is a jump (documented in :h jump-motions, so unlikely to be a bug).

    You may want to add that you can use zv after :76 to open the fold.

     – Mass Sep 04 '17 at 14:42
  • @Mass The OP doesn't want to have to type anything to open the fold,once they land on it. – Herb Sep 04 '17 at 15:08
  • Just like :76, jumping while launching vim doesn't seem to open folds (example: gvim +76 myfile.tex... I'm using it with the option --servername with synctex). Is there a workaround? What's the Ex command for jumping? – PlasmaBinturong Feb 11 '18 at 16:27
  • I have tried gvim --servername GVIM "+normal 76G" myfile.tex but it doesn't unfold. – PlasmaBinturong Feb 11 '18 at 16:34
  • Something that worked for me to open folds from via the server capability: gvim --servername VIMTEX --remote '+normal 76GzO<CR>' myfile.tex (for some reason, the zO (open folds) and carriage return are needed. – PlasmaBinturong Mar 26 '18 at 16:39