With pearofducs/ansible-vim plugin installed, following mapping behaves like `gf`, navigates to role under cursor's tasks/main.yml file. Ideal to be used in playbooks

ansible-vim-goto-role-tasks.vim

" vim-plug example
call plug#begin('~/.vim/plugged')
Plug 'pearofducks/ansible-vim'
call plug#end()

let g:ansible_goto_role_paths = './roles,../_common/roles'

function! FindAnsibleRoleUnderCursor()
  if exists("g:ansible_goto_role_paths")
    let l:role_paths = g:ansible_goto_role_paths
  else
    let l:role_paths = "./roles"
  endif
  let l:tasks_main = expand("<cfile>") . "/tasks/main.yml"
  let l:found_role_path = findfile(l:tasks_main, l:role_paths)
  if l:found_role_path == ""
    echo l:tasks_main . " not found"
  else
    execute "edit " . fnameescape(l:found_role_path)
  endif
endfunction

au BufRead,BufNewFile */ansible/*.yml nnoremap <leader>gr :call FindAnsibleRoleUnderCursor()<CR>
au BufRead,BufNewFile */ansible/*.yml vnoremap <leader>gr :call FindAnsibleRoleUnderCursor()<CR>

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Thanks for the snippet. But why are we having 2 au lines at the end. And some people, atleast me, uses yaml as the extention.

    au BufEnter,BufNewFile */ansible/*.y[a]\\\{0,1\}ml nnoremap <silent> <leader>gr :call FindAnsibleRoleUnderCursor()<CR>

I think this will support both yml and yaml
BufEnter will be more efficient than BufRead as we've to process only when we enter the butter.

@rjshrjndrn you are welcome!

But why are we having 2 au lines at the end.

First one is for normal mode, hence nnoremap; second one is for visual mode, hence vnoremap.

Thanks for the file extension addition :)

Stupid me.. Didn't notice the V in vnoremap haha.. Thanks though

While playing around with the function I noticed that findfile

• doesn't do tilde expansion and
• returns all files found in path (in a NULL-delimted string)

To fix this I changed the search portion to use globpath and return a list (the 1) and then edit the first file found.

I also search for .yaml as well as .yml:

...
let l:tasks_main = expand('<cfile>') . '/tasks/main.y*ml'
let l:found_role_path = globpath(l:role_paths, l:tasks_main, 0, 1)
if l:found_role_path == []
  echo l:tasks_main . ' not found'
else
  execute 'edit ' . fnameescape(l:found_role_path[0])
endif
...