Re: Arbitrary folding in emacs

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: C K Kashyap <ckkashyap@gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 14:55:44 +0530
> Cc: "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
> 
> Thanks Eli ... however, this does not quite work for me. Among other things
> - I need to collapse a huge bunch of initializations starting at column 1.
> What would be great is if I could just select a bunch of lines and apply
> folding on it!

In that case, you can narrow the buffer so as to exclude that
portion.  Mark the region you want to hide, and then type "C-x n n".