Folding based on indentation is the easiest and most intuitive way to hide sections of a file with minimal special formatting. However, I wanted a section of lines with the same indent to fold into a heading with less indent. This is not what the default behavior is, which folds into the first line with the same indent: Unfolded text: heading A line 1 line 2 line 3 heading B Default behavior (folded based on indent): heading A line 1 heading B What I wanted when folded: heading A heading B So, I put this in my vimrc to implement folding: