VIM: More precise C/C++ code parsing solutions?

Question

Pre: I\'ve been working in VIM for like a year already. Lots of great things: combinations, scripts. Whenever I\'m editing something in a different editor,

Answer 1

Unfortunatelly, it is a real problem. ctags or cscope can hardly compete with Visual Studio code browsing - it actually uses a C++ compiler front-end to parse the code for the editor.

Answer 2

Search and Call tree

You could try eclim, which is a way to use some Eclipse features in Vim.

For C/C++, it provides :

• Context sensitive completion (although it is disabled on Windows because it is buggy)
• Context sensitive search in Project files (through :CSearchContext)
• Call tree for functions/methods (:CCallHierarchy)
• Code Validation (:Validate)

It is not great, but it can help in some cases.

Code Completion

Regarding automatic code completion, I primarily use OmniCppComplete, which is using tags to provide Context aware code completion. It is not that bad.

As advised by Luc Hermitte, you can also use clang_complete which does not need ctags, but needs clang installed.