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Asked: 2026-05-26T23:19:48+00:00

I use vim for programming. my current job based on Yii MVC framework. When

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I use vim for programming. my current job based on Yii MVC framework.

When you work with MVC framework, you are always navigating among models, controllers and views. I want to make save time navigation for my tasks.

The first is: i want jump to a model related controller. One model could have one controller for jumping to. Which i want to setup once in a project.

What is the best solution for this ?

My opinion is create a comment in a model header like phpDoc

/*
* @controller ControllerName
*/

And then write a vim function, which will find “ControllerName” in current file and open this file. Then bind it to a key combination.

What is your idea to implement it?

Thanks.

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  1. Editorial Team

    This functionality is known as tag navigation. Chances are that your fileformat is already supported by the omnipresent exuberant ctags (guessing it is php, for sure).

    Then you’d basically do:

    :!ctags -R .
:tj ControllerName

    You can use tab-completion (Control + Tab), do searches (:tj /troll + Tab)

    Ctags has numerous options to enrich/limit the kinds of objects tagged. To selectively act on certain files only:

    :tags +=controllertags
:!ctags -o controllertags **/*Controller.php

    which will tag only controller sources in a separate tags file so you can keep working with the rest of your tags setup as before (in case you were already using it for other stuff)

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