vim-go-error-folds

Lets get one thing out of the way: Go error handling is awesome. This plugin exists to make it even better.

This plugin uses vim's foldmethod=expr to create folds around your error handling code. You still write your go code as before, but you can toggle the folds off and on. You can think of this as a way to "zoom out" on your go code, to get a 10,000 foot view, with error handling code summarized.

Installation

Vundle is a great way to go:

Plugin 'jargv/vim-go-error-folds'

TODO: add aditional installation instructions

Usage

at the moment a single command is provided:

:ToggleGoErrorFolding

which you can create a keybinding for:

nnoremap <leader>;f :ToggleGoErrorFolding<cr>

This command saves and restores the previous values of foldmethod and foldexpr

Background

This idea originated in a github issue to change the syntax of go to have terser error handling: (golang/go/issues/18721).