John Wells
3/25/2009 12:55:00 AM
I've been using vi/vim since '97 for various quick edits and
administration tasks, but have only recently considered using it to
replace Netbeans as my ruby editor of choice. One thing I find
extremely useful in both Netbeans and Eclipse is the Ctrl+Click "Go to
definition" feature, where you can ctrl+click on a class or method and
it will take you to the definition.
Now, I've played with exuberant ctags and rails.vim, and it's close,
but no cigar. Here's what I want: by default in Netbeans and Eclipse,
you can ctrl+click a local method or class in your local rails
project, but you can also ctrl+click on things defined in gems or in
the system libraries that are coded in Ruby. Netbeans for example
parses all ruby files in the default system paths and makes them
navigable for you. If there are multiple files that define a method,
it will present you with a list and allow you to choose between them.
How can one accomplish this within vim? If it can be done, I may be
able to make the jump full time.
Thanks,
John