How to navigate multiple ctags matches in Vim?

Question

I\'m using Ctrl-] in Vim to navigate using Ctags. How do I navigate to alternate file if there are multiple matches?

Ex. something.publish

Answer 1

ltag

ltag the_tag_name
lopen

opens a location window with the tag matches.

This is specially powerful with regular expression tag searches:

ltag /tag_na
lopen

which will list all tags that contain the string tag_na (thus including the_tag_name).

You can then further search inside the location list, before hitting enter to jump to the tag.

To use it for the word under the cursor, you might want to define the map:

nnoremap l exec("ltag ".expand(""))

Then, if you are a tab maniac like me:

command! -nargs=1 Ltag silent ltag  | execute "normal \" | tab lopen

will open a new tab with the location list and all the matches, instead of jumping to the tab directly:

:Ltag /my_struct