On the Geany editor there is symbol tab which when you pass one C program to Geany it shows all functions and classes and variables and macros in the list . So is there any ability like that in VIM? If you have no the idea about symbol in the Geany look here.
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1Since vim is an extremely extensible language see http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Use_Vim_like_an_IDE#Code_Browsing – sagarchalise May 26 '14 at 11:47
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The word you are searching for is called Outline in Eclipse, Navigator in Netbeans and Source Code Browser in Gedit.
A common program that creates this tree is CTAGS. The most common used is exuberant CTAGS http://ctags.sourceforge.net/. It does support 41 languages including C.
Here a tutorial how to combine it with vim:
http://andrew.stwrt.ca/posts/vim-ctags
or some tips and tricks on stackoverflow:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/563616/vim-and-ctags-tips-and-tricks
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Much easier to use the Tagbar or Tag List addons mentioned by kraxor. – NGRhodes May 30 '14 at 10:41
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You might be looking for the Tagbar plugin. Or Tag List, which is a bit older and less maintained I think.
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Tag list is well maintained - does not need many updates as generally works so well. – NGRhodes May 30 '14 at 10:40