Get ctags in vim to go to definition, not declaration

Question

I\'m having the problem that ctags in vim/gvim takes me to a forward declaration a lot of times instead of to the actual definition of the function.

Any way to get a

Answer 1

Late to the party, but for incoming vim tag googlers:

I've found that using cscope in addition to ctags is the way to go, at least for C/C++. It's more intelligent about call trees, and you can set it to fallback to ctags if it fails. Just run "cscope -b" everytime you run ctags -R . and you'll be ready to go. If you use the settings below, you'll be able to use Ctrl-]/Ctrl-T like always, but you can also add nifty new jumps like jumping to a function declaration and showing a jumplist of function callers.

" setup
if has("cscope")
    set csto=0                                                                             
    set cst
    set nocsverb
    " add any database in current directory
    if filereadable("cscope.out")
    cs add cscope.out
    " else add database pointed to by environment
    elseif $CSCOPE_DB != ""
    cs add $CSCOPE_DB
    endif
    set csverb
endif

" jump to a function declaration
nmap   :cs find s =expand("")1
" show a list of where function is called
nmap   :cs find c =expand("")