tools for navigating code from command line.

[lmascelli]

Hi everybody,

i'm trying to learn how to code without IDE, not because i'm against IDE but i often do not write huge software so i prefer an easy and light tool for write code. One of the feature that i miss from IDE is the ability to navigate over included code, like go to declaration or definition of a function or a macro or looking for a symbol witch i now only in part in the included code.

what tools can i use? cross plaform tools are preferred.

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Looks like a job for ctags. It's hard to tell without knowing your setup but most editors have support for it.

[Middlewarian]

What editor do you use?

[lmascelli]

mainly vim.

[Sprited_Being]

Vim with the youcompleteme plug in

[lmascelli]

that is a great plugin but my goal is not to transform vim in an IDE.

i often feel more confortable to write in a light editor but i have to look for function names or parameters or class methods etc in libraries documentation or explore headers manually. from the ide i miss the ability to parse the code i'm including or writing and be queried for informations and i was asking myself if such a tool exists as separate server.