Is it possible to find usage of java classes or methods in VIM?

Question

Or one shouldn't use vim for such goals?

Answer 1

I'm sure it is possible, wither it is easy and how to do it are different questions. The VI and there for VIM philosophy tends to simplicity and lightness. IDE features like find usage tend to slow down startup and increase memory footprint, so I would expect to find very few VIM plugins to do this.

I would suggest loading up your classes in an IDE ( like the free eclipse ) or if you much prefer command line try emacs as this gets much closer to a command line IDE then VIM.

Answer 2

You should try out the Vim Taglist plugin; it allows you to browse between source code tags in a variety of languages.

Answer 3

You should use the integration of exuberant-ctags with vim for that purpose. It handles java quite well.

See this article for example.