Confusion about vim folding - how to disable?

Question

1. When I open the file it looks like this: or even this

Answer 1

Just adding one more to make it complete to the point of discussion.

To enable code folding:

:set foldenable or in short, :set fen

To disable code folding:

:set nofoldenable or in short, :set nofen

Once you enable codefolding, you will have all the commands like zf,zo etc at your wish according to the setting of :set fdm=xxxx where typical values are expr,syntax,manual etc.

Answer 2

Vim makes it amazingly hard to disable folding, especially when using vimdiff.
None of the above posted solutions worked for me, but this did (add to ~/.vimrc):

au WinEnter * set nofen
au WinLeave * set nofen

Answer 3

I set foldlevel=20, foldlevelstart=20 and I use foldmethod=syntax. It's help me work with correct folding in vim.

set nofoldenable disable folding but sometimes I need it

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