Vim plugin which uses the compiler Include to jump to function, and show prototype and auto-compilation

Question

In vim on Linux mainly, if I've a c or c++ source file which includes many other header files.

Is there any plugin available which can use the compiler Include (-I) and shows the syntax of the function on which the cursor or something like jump to definition.

I know about ctag, but is there anything more advance something like Visual Studio on windows.

Answer 1

There is YouCompleteMe and ClangComplete. These both use libclang to handle the completion.

Answer 2

What you ask for is the whole purpose of ctags. If you haven't done that yet, you should read :help tags and :help ctags. The :tselect command may be what you are looking for.

Cscope is another slightly more advanced solution (it does "jump to usage" too). See :help cscope for more information.

That said, Vim has built-in "include-search": :help include-search has this nice little mapping example:

:map <F4> [I:let nr = input("Which one: ")<Bar>exe "normal " . nr ."[\t"<CR>