Within vim you can fold away some data that doesn't pertain to what you're looking for at that moment. So I'd like to save that unfolded data to a separate file and look at it closer, but I don't know the correct/exact combinations to do this.I know :folddoopen .:w >> file.ext will appended the non-folded data to an existing file, so my temporary work around is just touch file.ext before opening vi.:folddoopen :w > file.ext won't work as this writes the entire open file to the file and even loops through it over and over and over. Doing this in my case resulted in a 4.5GB file!I'm using vim-lite on freeBSD: https://www.freshports.org/editors/vim-lite/By the way, is unfolded the correct term?
save unfolded data to separate file
folding
Use a ! to force the writing, even if the file doesn't exist::folddoopen .:w! >> file