gem-ctags

The two tools I'd recommend for navigating ruby code in addition to #source_location are Solargraph[1] and, my favourite, good 'ol exuberant ctags[2]. Solargraph is an amazing project but ctags is still just so fast and low overhead that it's what I mostly use. ctag support is available for most editors and is built into Vim. You need to first generate a tag file (or have an editor plugin do it for you[3]) and then press Ctrl-] to go to definition. 1. https://solargraph.org/ 2. http://ctags.sourceforge.net/ 3. https://github.com/tpope/gem-ctags

No mention of auto-tagging? One life-safer in legacy rails projects is tpope's excellent plug-ins, especially: https://github.com/tpope/gem-ctags https://github.com/tpope/gem-browse That effortlessly let's one go to the definition of various library code. Not sure if there's something similar for Python and typescript?

Over the past year I've cobbled together a few plug-ins for (neo)vim that mostly works for ruby+rails (thanks tpope!) - the one thing missing right now is tag support/"go to definition" for haml/scss on a legacy project. My question: to you have go to definition/tags setup in va code w/vim - and if so, how have bound the keys to get there? [ed: looks like a sibling comment answered this in part already] Tpope has a magnificent tools that allow jumping into gems - and I'm curious if you have something similar for python - allowing you to jump from your code, to pip/egg/package code, to python stdlib code.. And maybe all the way to c source for extensions? See: https://github.com/tpope/gem-ctags And much more

Fwiw with a couple of plugins[1], I have very nice code completion in vim with ruby/rails along with useful "go to definition". Perhaps not as challenging as punching cards - but it's not like vim is some kind of bare bones editor... [1] for a starting point see https://github.com/tpope/gem-ctags/blob/master/README.markdo... I'm on my cell, but as far as I can rember my ruby specific part of vim rc is ~5 lines or so. Coupled with 'guard' to run ctags over changed files... At a glance, this seems to cover the essentials: https://chodounsky.net/2016/12/09/using-tags-to-browse-ruby-...