vim-ada VS ctags

In terms of bootstrapping your environment and getting started, I'd recommend looking at Vim-Ada and Awesome Ada. I also tried to write up some practical advice from my experience, which might be helpful.

Vim-Ada has links to a built user-contributed docset to use.

There's also instructions about how to install a Zeal docset for Ada in the vim-ada instructions.

This version brings a couple (literally) new plugins (EasyMotion, QuickUI), one removed (Vim-Header) and one theme replaced (Gruvbox with Gruvbox8). For more detailed information about the changes, please look at the release page: https://github.com/thindil/vim-ada/releases/tag/v12.0

Due to often work with multi-language projects I use NeoVim with many plugins. I even created the project to easily configure Vim/NeoVim on GitHub. Generally, I looked at GPS and VS Code and put into Vim all these parts which I liked: like support for Ada Language Server, Zeal etc.

You could look at Programming Fonts page, probably the best place to try to find any good font for you. Personally, I use FiraCode mostly due to ligatures. You can look here to see how the Ada code looks with FiraCode.

I also recommend you https://github.com/preservim/tagbar with https://ctags.io/ installed , it will map definitions (functions, enum, struct etc..) to tags and tagbar plugin allows you to open a split window with the mapped list and navigate through your file, it also enabled more advanced features for quick navigation .

grep, Ctags, Cscope, LSP

Vim has the tag feature built-in, which allows it to jump to the tags that were found by a tool like universal ctags using :h CTRL-]. See :help tags for more information on this. Fun fact: this is the approach that Vim uses when you use :help!

Requirements: You need to have a CTags implementation like universal-ctags installed on your system (on every system where you use vim).

Install https://github.com/universal-ctags/ctags

If you are heavy Vim user, you do not need anything else. For just quick browsing, simply use ctags, make sure to use universal ctags (https://ctags.io) not exuberant ctags which are no longer well maintained. Go works out of box.

Other (built-in) tools for file navigation in Vim include: :h :ls and :h :buffer to navigate in your buffer list (i.e. the files you have loaded); everything listed in [https://vimways.org/2018/death-by-a-thousand-files/](romainl's "Death by a Thousand Files" articles in vimways); using tags by installing universal-ctags to generate the tags then using any of the commands in :h tag to navigate them; setting global marks to files you use often with m[UPPERCASE LETTER] and jumping to them with `[UPPERCASE LETTER]; :h :vimgrep…

I have good news for you. Universal Ctags, an Exuberant Ctags fork and essentially its replacement, has fixed this already:

Vim has built-in functionality that works pretty similar to what you want. If you have a tags file (for example, using universal ctags), you can hit Ctrl-] (:h Ctrl-]) to jump to the declaration of any function under your cursor. Or, if you don't have a tags file, you can use gd (:h gd) to jump to a local declaration within the open file.