Making vim better (was Re: A better syntax highlighting color scheme for Ruby code on Vim?)

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This is a little OT since it really applies to more than just ruby.

I've been using Tlist/ctags for a while, and find myself wishing for more.

If I've been editing a series of files in one vim/gvim session, it
keeps a combiled taglist which is nice. What I'd like to be able to do
is select, say a method name, in a file window, and 'go to' the
definition, if it's in the tag list.

Even better, if it's not then some way to grep the directory
containing the current file, possibly recursively, for the definition,
to look for likely files to add.

I suspect that someone, somewhere has done this, but I can't seem to
figure out how to express this as a google search.

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On 9/2/06, Piers Harding <piers@ompka.net> wrote:

Also - if you like vim - you may even like it even more if you haven't
allready disovered mru and Tlist with ctags?

--
Rick DeNatale

My blog on Ruby
http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/

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google 'glimpse'

-a

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On Fri, 15 Sep 2006, Rick DeNatale wrote:

On 9/2/06, Piers Harding <piers@ompka.net> wrote:

Also - if you like vim - you may even like it even more if you haven't
allready disovered mru and Tlist with ctags?

This is a little OT since it really applies to more than just ruby.

I've been using Tlist/ctags for a while, and find myself wishing for more.

If I've been editing a series of files in one vim/gvim session, it
keeps a combiled taglist which is nice. What I'd like to be able to do
is select, say a method name, in a file window, and 'go to' the
definition, if it's in the tag list.

Even better, if it's not then some way to grep the directory
containing the current file, possibly recursively, for the definition,
to look for likely files to add.

I suspect that someone, somewhere has done this, but I can't seem to
figure out how to express this as a google search.

--
in order to be effective truth must penetrate like an arrow - and that is
likely to hurt. -- wei wu wei

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Rick DeNatale wrote:

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On 9/2/06, Piers Harding <piers@ompka.net> wrote:

Also - if you like vim - you may even like it even more if you haven't
allready disovered mru and Tlist with ctags?

This is a little OT since it really applies to more than just ruby.

I've been using Tlist/ctags for a while, and find myself wishing for more.

If I've been editing a series of files in one vim/gvim session, it
keeps a combiled taglist which is nice. What I'd like to be able to do
is select, say a method name, in a file window, and 'go to' the
definition, if it's in the tag list.

Even better, if it's not then some way to grep the directory
containing the current file, possibly recursively, for the definition,
to look for likely files to add.

I suspect that someone, somewhere has done this, but I can't seem to
figure out how to express this as a google search.

google cscope and vim

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>Also - if you like vim - you may even like it even more if you haven't
>allready disovered mru and Tlist with ctags?

This is a little OT since it really applies to more than just ruby.

I've been using Tlist/ctags for a while, and find myself wishing for more.

If I've been editing a series of files in one vim/gvim session, it
keeps a combiled taglist which is nice. What I'd like to be able to do
is select, say a method name, in a file window, and 'go to' the
definition, if it's in the tag list.

Unless I'm totally off my rocker, CTRL-] is what you are looking for.

Even better, if it's not then some way to grep the directory
containing the current file, possibly recursively, for the definition,
to look for likely files to add.

I just run ctags -R (exuberant) and use :tag. Works pretty well.

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On Fri, Sep 15, 2006 at 04:50:31AM +0900, Rick DeNatale wrote:

On 9/2/06, Piers Harding <piers@ompka.net> wrote:

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also google winmanager.vim or just search for it from www.vim.org/scripts/index.php

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ara.t.howard@noaa.gov wrote:

On Fri, 15 Sep 2006, Rick DeNatale wrote:

On 9/2/06, Piers Harding <piers@ompka.net> wrote:

Also - if you like vim - you may even like it even more if you haven't
allready disovered mru and Tlist with ctags?

This is a little OT since it really applies to more than just ruby.

I've been using Tlist/ctags for a while, and find myself wishing for more.

If I've been editing a series of files in one vim/gvim session, it
keeps a combiled taglist which is nice. What I'd like to be able to do
is select, say a method name, in a file window, and 'go to' the
definition, if it's in the tag list.

Even better, if it's not then some way to grep the directory
containing the current file, possibly recursively, for the definition,
to look for likely files to add.

I suspect that someone, somewhere has done this, but I can't seem to
figure out how to express this as a google search.

google 'glimpse'

-a

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Yes, I was thrown off by two things:

1) I didn't read the doc <G>
2) The Tlist script seems to run ctags and pipe it somewhere, you need
to save the tags to get ctrl-] to work.

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On 9/14/06, Logan Capaldo <logancapaldo@gmail.com> wrote:

Unless I'm totally off my rocker, CTRL-] is what you are looking for.

--
Rick DeNatale

My blog on Ruby
http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/