Jump to function definition in vim

Question

How can I jump to to a function definition using vim? For example with Visual Assist, I can type Alt+g under a function and it opens a context menu lis

Answer 1

To second Paul's response: yes, ctags (especially exuberant-ctags (http://ctags.sourceforge.net/)) is great. I have also added this to my vimrc, so I can use one tags file for an entire project:

set tags=tags;/