Tip: #7 - Jumping to the start and end of a code block
Created: February 24, 2001 17:59 Complexity: basic Author: Yegappan Version: 5.7 Karma: 55/32 Imported from: Tip#7
To jump to the beginning of a C code block (while, switch, if etc),
use the [{ command.
To jump to the end of a C code block (while, switch, if etc),
use the ]} command.
The above two commands will work from anywhere inside the code
block.
To jump to the beginning of a parenthesis use the [( command.
To jump to the end of a parenthesis use the ]) command.
To get more help on these commands, do
- help [{
- help ]}
- help [(
- help ])
Comments
related to these motion command are and
[[ sections backward or to the previous '{' in the first column.
]] sections backward or to the previous '{' in the first column.
[] sections backward or to the previous '}' in the first column.
This has specially help me in jumping to the top of the functions and jumping from one function to the next function.
May be our coding convention played a part in this
alinets--AT--yahoo.com , June 14, 2002 17:55
To jump to the beginning/end of a function that does not have a "{" in the first column, there is a work around in the VIM documentation. Try ":help [[" and search for "map" in that text.
Anonymous , June 30, 2004 12:31
hi, what's the different between this and just searching "/ or ?" for the braces?
i thought this might be a smarter search, but "[{" will still matchin open curlies inside a comment.
anon , March 27, 2006 12:58