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Donghui Sun
Donghui Sun

Reputation: 263

A confusion about shortcut key of youcompleteme for vim

all. I am trying to use youcompleteme for code completing in vim. Generally, it works well except that when i need to jump between source files. First. I use the subcommand 

:YcmCompleter GoToDefinition

it can find the definition. BUT it seems so verbose. Then I want to map this subcommand into some shortcut key according to the YCM's instruction:

nnoremap <leader>gl :YcmCompleter GoToDeclaration<CR>
nnoremap <leader>gf :YcmCompleter GoToDefinition<CR>
nnoremap <leader>gg :YcmCompleter GoToDefinitionElseDeclaration<CR>

I am a little confused. what is short cut key? l or gl ?

Upvotes: 11

Views: 12323

Answers (2)

polo xue
polo xue

Reputation: 114

You can type \gl to go to the definition. The default <leader> is the key \. So if you type \gl, you can go to the definition.

And another shortcut you can try, Ctrl+o -> you can return back where you came from.

Upvotes: 1

Daan Bakker
Daan Bakker

Reputation: 6352

When you create a mapping with <leader>, <leader> is replaced by whatever is in your "mapleader" variable (by default \).

If you have this in your vimrc:

let mapleader=","
nnoremap <leader>gl :YcmCompleter GoToDeclaration<CR>

It acts the same as:

nnoremap ,gl :YcmCompleter GoToDeclaration<CR>

Thus you could run the YcmCompleter GoToDeclaration command by pressing ,gl

Upvotes: 14

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