https://gcanat.github.io/posts/Recent content in Posts on GCGC websiteHugoen-us© [Guillaume Canat](https://github.com/gcanat)Mon, 11 May 2026 23:00:45 +0200https://gcanat.github.io/posts/vim-easy-nav/Mon, 11 May 2026 23:00:45 +0200https://gcanat.github.io/posts/vim-easy-nav/<h2 id="introduction">Introduction</h2> <p>In the days of fancy plugins super charging vim to make it look like a fully fledged IDE, I sometimes like to go back to the basics and (re)discover how vim often already has something builtin to do things, albeit maybe in a slightly different way.</p> <p>Before LSP was a thing, <a href="https://vimhelp.org/tagsrch.txt.html#tags">tags</a> were already there to help us navigate a codebase and we also have the <code>:compiler</code> command to run linters and populate the quickfix list with errors. Before fuzzy finders were all the rage, we already had <code>:edit</code>, <code>:find</code> and the <a href="https://vimhelp.org/editing.txt.html#arglist">argument list</a>.</p>