(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.
SortFolds is compatible to the most commonly used plugin managers for vim.
Just drop the following line in your .vimrc:
Plugin 'mikeboiko/vim-sort-folds'
(for Vundle)
Plug 'mikeboiko/vim-sort-folds'
(for vim-plug)
Per default, sorting visually selected folds is mapped to <leader>sf, if
available, but can be easily remapped.
This plugin was not tested and is not expected to work with foldmethod set to
manual for now.