Question

Is there a Vim shortcut for jumping to the argument list of the current function? I often find myself needing to mess with the argument list of a function, and it’s kind of annoying to have to do ?def or ?function or 10k or what-have-you until I finally get to it, then /( or t( or 5e to get to the right position in the argument list, and so on. It would be great if I could just hit ,a for example and instantly get put into insert mode at the end/beginning of the argument list.

Possible approaches:

• Folding
• Tag support (ctags)

Also, I’m using Python, so solutions based on curly braces unfortunately won’t work.

If no such shortcut exists, I’ll just write one and post it here as an answer. 🙂

Answer 1

The fool proof way of getting to the begining of a function is to use [[. So you use

map ,a ma[[kf(a

so it can take you to the function definition, search for the first occurance of ‘(‘ and then put you in the insert mode.