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This article is part of the on-going Vi / Vim Tips and Tricks series. As a programmer or system administrator, you will be constantly browsing source codes and shell scripts.

Following are some typical activities that you may perform while browsing a source code file:

1. Navigating to the function definition by specifying the function name.
2. Navigating to the function definition from ‘function call’.
3. Returning back again to function call from the definition.
4. Viewing the prototype/signature of functions or variables.
5. Viewing the number of functions in a file, etc.,

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