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Exuberant ctags and Vim

There is a new VIM plugin in town. The "Tag List" plugin can be used to efficiently browse through your source files.

I downloaded it, played with it and liked it. The underlying tagger is exuberant Ctags. I started exploring other editors mainly because I didn’t find a tagger for other languages. This Ctags support all languages I use currently.

I think I switch to other editors once in a while for these:

• Code completion in Python. ie., auto-drop-list for module.functions. I use IDLE or PythonWin for that.
• Quick running of scripts from within the editor. It is possible in VIM, but I prefer the ease and the output listing of this in Scite (F5) or Emacs (C-c C-c).
• Buffer separator is a character based. Not real GUI like frame borders. This is slightly annoying.

1. Do you know that when you use ctags in VIM, you have functionality comparable to code completion available with Ctrl-P ?

   Maybe not as good as in PythonWin as it does it only based on few letters...

   Posted by: Godefroid Chapelle on February 26, 2003 02:06 AM

2. I find myself editing my scripts in VIM but trying out code snippets and importing and running modules using the excellent PyCrust (now part of wxPython).

   Posted by: Andy Todd on May 30, 2003 01:44 PM

3. Hi,
   Suppose we call .sql from .sh.How to use ctags using vim.
   I know about c files.But how to handle in this context?Can u please help
   Like in C files, by pressing ctrl+T i should be able to jump to that sql file from the sh file and ctrl+], i should return to the shell file.Is that possible?

   Posted by: geethakrishna on November 1, 2004 07:20 PM