How to find the global function?

Question

I have a function name called setValue, used in many classes. Also, i have a global function by the same name. When i press C-], it goes to arbitrary setValue function. How do i directly jump to the global setValue function? It is really pain to use tnext every time to find if the function global.

Answer 1

When C-] returns multiple matches you can look up the list with

:ts

Then enter the number to jump to correct definition or dismiss the list.

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When ctags does not help ... You can search for occurances of setValue and then jump to the one that looks like definition.

:vim /setValue/ *                 <-- greps for setValue in all files

You can search only specific files, if you know that it is in header in subdirectory src or headers:

:vim /setValue/ src/*.h headers/*.h

once it's done do

:cope

to open a list, you can navigate up/down to select the definition that looks correct then jump to it with <enter>

You can close the list with

:clo

And later reopen it with

:cope

It will be there unless you have executed other commands that overwrite the list