Vim Editor is very smart?

Question

I am programming in C++ or Java. I want to use the Vim editor, and have heard that I can configure the Vim editor to be able to go:

1. from an object to the definition
2. from a function to the definition
3. from a class name to the definition

Do we have any professional Vim-er that could tell me how exactly to configure Vim for that?

Answer 1

What you're referring to is tags I believe. Check here for section 29.1 - using tags.

Answer 2

You could look at the "code complete" plugin:

• http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1764
• http://files.myopera.com/mbbill/files/code_complete.gif

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Update: Sorry I misunderstood your question, I think you are looking for ctags (and maybe cscope), I use ctags all the time but it works best for c, but I found it quite usable even for java.

I don't have a good tutorial right now but if you google for words like vim ctags tutorial you will find some usable links... (I hope anyway)

I also found this, that will create a index of all the java files under the src dir, for both ctags and cscope

ctags -R src/ & find src/ -name '*.java' > cscope.files &&  cscope -b

It work really nice under Linux, but if you are sitting on windows this also works under cygwin.

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That was one really confusing answer... but maybe it could be usable anyway :)