In :help tag it says that one can go to a tag definition using the CTRL-] keystroke. But I can't get this to work. I thought I messed some mappings with my plugins, so I cleaned .vimrc. But I still get cursor to a tag word (in help for example). I strike Ctrl and ] simultaneously and nothing happens.
How to fix it? Or maybe I'm reading :help wrong?
First, use the :verbose command (thanks to sehe) to know who rebound your key where.
:verbose nmap <C-]>
Then, if you cannot find where your key was rebound, bind yourCtrl-] key by the original one then retry:
:nnoremap <C-]> <C-]>
For more info:
:help mapping
:help :verbose
:help :noremap
:verbose nmap <C-]> will tell you who rebound your key where –
Uralic I have the same issue, and :verbose did not bring up anything useful. What I figured out is that Ctrl-+ takes me there.
Please note that I am using a German keyboard where the plus sign sits at the position of square bracket on a US keyboard. Maybe the code only looks at the location of the key (I remember reading something to that respect in combination with the Ctrl-key).
With macOS on a Norwegian keyboard: CTRL-] is CTRL-å
A somewhat late entry, but I had the same problem. Thought I'd share a possible solution so others wont have to go through the agony.
The solution in my case was: Press Ctrl and while keeping it pressed down, press ] twice!!! Whatever key combination you use to produce the right square bracket, ], do it twice!! I do not know why this works in my case. There's nothing in the help files that mentions this. Spent probably an hour or two trying to figure out the Ctrl-] combination until I came upon the solution by accident.
I was facing same problem on virtual box VM. The right ctrl key is to switch between the host and the guest environment. Try using left ctrl + ].
For mee, "Ctrl-]" means "Ctrl+Alt GR+)". In other words,
On a Danish keybord on Windows 10 this works:
Ctrl + ¨
¨ is the diuresis or umlaut sign, positioned to the right of 'å'.
The problem is due to default setting of Virtual box. In Oracle Virtual Box you can see by default right control is using as Host key combination. Go to File -> Preferences-> Input and change Host key combination to "None". Initially for me also left ctrl worked and after the above changes both keys working.
This solution only works for linux in an X environment for non-us keyboard layouts.
I just struggled with this problem in linux with a swiss german keyboard layout. We type ] by pressing AltGr+¨, thus i would have to use AltGr+Ctrl+¨ to jump to the ctag definition, which is awkward.
What i did was to remap the ¨ (diaeresis) key to ] (bracketright)
print current mapping for keycode 35:
$> xmodmap -pke | grep 35
keycode 35 = dead_diaeresis exclam dead_diaeresis exclam bracketright dead_macron bracketright
remap key (we just replace the first dead_diaeresis with bracketright):
$> xmodmap -e 'keycode 35 = bracketright exclam dead_diaeresis exclam bracketright dead_macron bracketright'
Pressing keycode 35 (¨) will now print ] without the need of any modifier, and CTRL-] works to jump to the tag.
xmodmap -e can be executed as user without need for sudo, you can put it for example in your .profile.
see swiss-german layout for reference
I had this same problem and I solved it. In my case I was maping the key CTRL + F10. So I First hit CTRL + F10 in Vim insert mode and see what the key output is. In my case it was F36 then I simply map it in vimrc file as
map <F36> <CR>YOUR COMMAND<CR>
Same solution for a german qwertz-keyboard -> CTRL-+ did the trick! Thanks!
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]key located just left of the Enter key? Do you have to press Shift to get a "]"? – Cameraman:tag quickref(just a random tag) or double clicking on a tag in gvim? Do these at least work? – Cameramantagsfile withctags? – Fricative:tag {tag_name}is working and double click too. I fooled around with this script bundle: link, and made everything according to itsREADMEincludingcall pathogen#helptags(). Does it changes keymapping? – HensleyCtrl-^– Differentia