Vim: Go to Beginning/End of Next Method

Question

Is there native functionality in Vim that allows one to move the cursor to the beginning/end of the next method? I already know about [[, ]],

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<!(\_[^)]*)\_[^;{}()]*\zs{

see the effect here:

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

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

EDIT: a better pattern(version 2):

" jump to the previous function
nnoremap <silent> [f :call
\ search('\(\(if\\|for\\|while\\|switch\\|catch\)\_s*\)\@64<!(\_[^)]*)\_[^;{}()]*\zs{', "bw")<CR>
" jump to the next function
nnoremap <silent> ]f :call
\ search('\(\(if\\|for\\|while\\|switch\\|catch\)\_s*\)\@64<!(\_[^)]*)\_[^;{}()]*\zs{', "w")<CR>

Answer 2

Looks like a duplicate of: Vim [m motion with c#

You could, for instance, give a try to this dirty trick: 9]}. Which just jumps to the 9-th } from the current location (if you're not too nested, should work...)

Answer 3

If you use taglist, I added a feature that does just that. You can jump from one tag to the other using Ctrl-up & Ctrl-down, provided the language is supported by taglist.

Here: https://github.com/man9ourah/taglist

and this to your .vimrc.

nmap <silent> <c-up> <plug>(TlistJumpTagUp)     " Map ctrl-up to move one tag up
nmap <silent> <c-down> <plug>(TlistJumpTagDown) " Map ctrl-down to move one tag down

Answer 4

Vim has [m / ]m built in "for Java or similar structured language".

I have written custom versions that handle Vim functions, VBScript, and batch files, among others. These are all powered by my CountJump plugin, which can be used to write custom jump functions based on regular expressions.