[SOLVED] Working with ctags in vim editor

[cbalu]

Hi folks,

I was working mostly on C language with the help of VIM editor which is already available under any (Li/U)nix machines.

Today i came across a blog which teaches about using the ctags for simplifying the task of navigating between the source codes.

Now, i have a need, most of the Programming Language IDE has a feature called "Jump to caller" where the IDE lists the set of places where the current selected method is called from.

Is there a way we can have such functionality under VIM? If so how can we do that one?

[liofko]

The ctags do not track the call-stack (who calls who) but more like the IDE's "Go To Reference" function.

If you will load a tags file (during work or "set tags=<tags file>" in the .vimrc file), stand on a function or variable and press ctrl+] , You will find the function/variable deceleration.

[cbalu]

liofko thanks for your reply. Is there any other hack which let the vim to keep track of the call-stack. It would be helpfull for me.

Because i don't have GUI at my end, i am working in terminal only which let me to use VIM and although i am comfortable with the functionalities of VIM this feature affects me a lot. Everytime i see a function i have to come back to terminal and use grep to search for that particular function call-stack which takes time as i am working on a source tree which has more than 12000 source code files.

Thanks in advance.

[cbalu]

Hi folks,

I found out the solution for this problem by using cscope.

Thanks