Tip #462: G's of Vim

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created:		April 22, 2003 18:53		complexity:		intermediate
author:		Nitya		as of Vim:		5.7

Hi Guys !! You can play with THE "g" in VIM editor. Try this Place the cursor on any variable in your program. gd will take you to the local declaration gD will take you to the global declaration. g* search for the word under the cursor. It's just like * but don't put < or > around words so here you can search word which contains word under your cursor Confused ???? try it NOW :-) g# same as g* but in backward direction Now time for gssssss ggdG takes out all your hard work ;-) I mean deletes the content of the file .. Happy viming ...

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Anonymous, April 23, 2003 11:25

g* and g# are very cool. For source code browsing, I definitely recommend using cscope in parallel with vim. You can find more info about cscope and vim elsewhere on this site or by googling.

Anonymous, April 27, 2003 23:58

Set your 'path' variable properly, put the cursor on a filename (in a #include say) and do a gf

Anonymous, May 2, 2003 5:31

How is this different from using * or # on their own? Save a keystroke ;)

sathishvj@yahoo_stop_spam.com, May 2, 2003 18:54

If ur cursor was under the word "file", and assuming ignorecase is on then *, # - will find: file, File, FiLe etc. g*, g# - will find, apart from the above, also: FileOpen, MyFilename, file_handle etc.




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