How to catch key event from vi editor

[kumar_choudhury]

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

[Dennis Handly]

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

See tag and tags in ex(1).

[Rasheed Tamton]

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.