How to jump to the beginning of the current function body in Vim?

Question

As title, if I\'m in the middle of function body and the function body is very long, how can I jump back to the beginning of the function body .

Answer 1

I spent hours to make this pattern: /^\s*\(\i\+\_[ \t\*]\+\)\+\i\+\_s*(\_[^)]*)\_s*{, it works good for me.

EDIT: a better pattern(version 2): /\(\(if\|for\|while\|switch\|catch\)\_s*\)\@64

see the effect here:

you can map some convenient bindings in your .vimrc, such as:

" jump to the previous function
nnoremap  [f :call search('^\s*\(\i\+\_[ \t\*]\+\)\+\i\+\_s*(\_[^)]*)\_s*{', "bw")
" jump to the next function
nnoremap  ]f :call search('^\s*\(\i\+\_[ \t\*]\+\)\+\i\+\_s*(\_[^)]*)\_s*{', "w")

EDIT: a better pattern(version 2):

" jump to the previous function
nnoremap  [f :call
\ search('\(\(if\\|for\\|while\\|switch\\|catch\)\_s*\)\@64
" jump to the next function
nnoremap  ]f :call
\ search('\(\(if\\|for\\|while\\|switch\\|catch\)\_s*\)\@64