vim-branch-stack is a Vim plugin helping to find the branching path to current line of code.

vim-branch-stack plugin is intended to help working on legacy C/C++ code where functions are long and have many nested branches (if-else, switch-case, try-catch, while, for).

• python3

$ cd ~/.vim/pack/directory_name/start/
$ git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/aserebryakov/vim-branch-stack.git

$ cd ~/.vim/bundle
$ git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/aserebryakov/vim-branch-stack.git

NeoBundle 'aserebryakov/vim-branch-stack'

Without plugin manager:

Clone or download this repository and copy its contents to your ~/.vim/ directory.

The stack is shown in the location window after BranchStack command execuiton while cursor is placed on the target line.

int main ()
{
    const int meaning = 42;
    const int pi_floor = 3;
    
    if (meaning)
    {
        if (pi_floor == 4)
        {
            // Do the stuff
        }
        else
        {
            // Cursor is here
        }
    }
    
    return 0;
}

1 main.cpp |6| if (meaning)
2 main.cpp |12| + else

The plugin has the following limitations:

• Commented out code with /* block comments */ brakes parsing
• goto is not supported
• do-while is not supported
• Preprocessing is not supported

Source code and issues are hosted on GitHub:

https://github.com/aserebryakov/vim-branch-stack

MIT License

• Initial version

• Fixed handling of single line comments

• Alexander Serebryakov (author) https://github.com/aserebryakov