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# Fold A Visual Selection And Expand It Back

If I visually select a series of lines -- say the open and close tags of a large `div` in an HTML file I am reading through -- and then hit `zf`, it will be *folded* into a single line. That line will list how many lines are included in the fold as well as the content of the first line of the fold.

If I later come back to that fold and want to expand it again, I can hit `zd` to delete (or undo) the fold.

To do this, you'll want to make sure your `foldmethod` is set to `manual`. This can be done by running the following command:

```
:set foldmethod=manual
```

See the vim helpfiles (`:h fold`) for more details.


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