topic Re: How to catch key event from vi editor in Operating System - Linux

How to catch key event from vi editor

kumar_choudhury — Fri, 11 May 2007 06:45:51 GMT

Hi,

We are having certain list of functins stored in a file. when ever I write the function name followed by ( then it should serarch that function name and display it on the bottom of the vi editor.

for this i need two things
1. how to catch keys from vi edior and run the script.

2. how to display some message in the bootm of the vi editor.

I am not sure is it possible or not if possible please suggest a way to do it.

Thanks
Raj Kumar

Re: How to catch key event from vi editor

Dennis Handly — Fri, 11 May 2007 18:16:17 GMT

Isn't there some type of tags in vi that would do something similar?

See tag and tags in ex(1).

Re: How to catch key event from vi editor

Rasheed Tamton — Sat, 12 May 2007 02:45:44 GMT

Hi,

To add with the above:

man 1 ctags

ctags is a tool which creates an index file describing where functions in source code are defined.

For more info
http://ctags.sourceforge.net/

Regards,
Rasheed Tamton.