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Sato
Sato

Reputation: 8602

vim ctags, two same entries, won't jump to definition directly

I use ctags -R . to generate tags,

if I try ctrl ] on some function, I always get two same entries

 # pri kind tag                    file
  1 F   f    accept_the_connection  src/connection.c
               int accept_the_connection(connection *conn)
  2 F   f    accept_the_connection  src/connection.c
               int accept_the_connection(connection *conn)
Type number and <Enter> (empty cancels):

I have to type 1 or 2 to jump to the definition.

How to make VIM jump directly?

UPDATE 1:

It seems to be a problem of my environment

So I have a Mac host with VirtualBox installed, and I have a CentOS guest. I develop in the CentOS env.

And I created a shared folder between Mac and CentOS:

[Mac]/Users/sato/Dropbox/projects/asdf => [Centos] /home/sato/asdf

and src/connection.c is in /home/sato/asdf

if I copy asdf to /home/sato/fdsa then ctrl ] in vim works

Upvotes: 0

Views: 571

Answers (1)

Ingo Karkat
Ingo Karkat

Reputation: 172598

You can supply a count to the command, i.e. 1<C-]>, but that's only a workaround.

The right way to fix this is to avoid having two identical entries in the tags database. From your output, it's impossible to tell what caused this. I have encountered this in the past when there were backup files (which had a different file extension), or if I ran the ctags on a directory too high up in the hierarchy, so different versions of the same library were included.

Upvotes: 1

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