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vim ctags

First, run ctags --version. If it says something about “etags” or “emacs”, do:

$ sudo apt-get install exuberant-ctags

Include this in our .vimrc:

set tags=./tags,tags;$HOME

Generate tags:

$ cd myproject
$ ctags -R .

We may want to add ctags to our Makefile.

In vim, when the cursor is on a function name, for example, do CTRL-] to jump to the function definition. Do CTRL-t to jump back.