symbols-view:go-to-declaration doesn't work

[probablycorey]

I only tried this in a .coffee file, but it doesn't work. I think there needs to be some feedback (like beep) to know if it didn't work.

[kevinsawicki]

Do you have a ctags file generated for the project you are trying to use it in?

[zenhob]

Apart from lack of error feedback, this is also just an issue with ctags and CoffeeScript. I needed to add this to my ~/.ctags to get CoffeeScript and symbols-view:go-to-declaration working together (via https://gist.github.com/mads379/907245):

--langdef=coffee
--langmap=coffee:.coffee
--regex-coffee=/(^|=[ \t])*class ([A-Za-z_][A-Za-z0-9_]+\.)*([A-Za-z_][A-Za-z0-9_]+)( extends ([A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9_.]*)+)?$/\3/c,class/
--regex-coffee=/^[ \t]*(module\.)?(exports\.)?@?(([A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9_.]*)+):.*[-=]>.*$/\3/m,method/
--regex-coffee=/^[ \t]*(module\.)?(exports\.)?(([A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9_.]*)+)[ \t]*=.*[-=]>.*$/\3/f,function/
--regex-coffee=/^[ \t]*(([A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9_.]*)+)[ \t]*=[^->\n]*$/\1/v,variable/
--regex-coffee=/^[ \t]*@(([A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9_.]*)+)[ \t]*=[^->\n]*$/\1/f,field/
--regex-coffee=/^[ \t]*@(([A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9_.]*)+):[^->\n]*$/\1/f,static field/
--regex-coffee=/^[ \t]*(([A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9_.]*)+):[^->\n]*$/\1/f,field/
--regex-coffee=/((constructor|initialize):[ \t]*\()@(([A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9_.]*)+)([ \t]*=[ \t]*[^,)]+)?/\3/f,field/
--regex-coffee=/((constructor|initialize):[ \t]*\()@(([A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9_.]*)+)([ \t]*=[ \t]*[^,)]+)?(,[ \t]*@(([A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9_.]*)+)([ \t]*=[ \t]*[^,)]+)?){0}/\8/f,field/
--regex-coffee=/((constructor|initialize):[ \t]*\()@(([A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9_.]*)+)([ \t]*=[ \t]*[^,)]+)?(,[ \t]*@(([A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9_.]*)+)([ \t]*=[ \t]*[^,)]+)?){1}/\8/f,field/
--regex-coffee=/((constructor|initialize):[ \t]*\()@(([A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9_.]*)+)([ \t]*=[ \t]*[^,)]+)?(,[ \t]*@(([A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9_.]*)+)([ \t]*=[ \t]*[^,)]+)?){2}/\8/f,field/
--regex-coffee=/((constructor|initialize):[ \t]*\()@(([A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9_.]*)+)([ \t]*=[ \t]*[^,)]+)?(,[ \t]*@(([A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9_.]*)+)([ \t]*=[ \t]*[^,)]+)?){3}/\8/f,field/
--regex-coffee=/((constructor|initialize):[ \t]*\()@(([A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9_.]*)+)([ \t]*=[ \t]*[^,)]+)?(,[ \t]*@(([A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9_.]*)+)([ \t]*=[ \t]*[^,)]+)?){4}/\8/f,field/
--regex-coffee=/((constructor|initialize):[ \t]*\()@(([A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9_.]*)+)([ \t]*=[ \t]*[^,)]+)?(,[ \t]*@(([A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9_.]*)+)([ \t]*=[ \t]*[^,)]+)?){5}/\8/f,field/
--regex-coffee=/((constructor|initialize):[ \t]*\()@(([A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9_.]*)+)([ \t]*=[ \t]*[^,)]+)?(,[ \t]*@(([A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9_.]*)+)([ \t]*=[ \t]*[^,)]+)?){6}/\8/f,field/
--regex-coffee=/((constructor|initialize):[ \t]*\()@(([A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9_.]*)+)([ \t]*=[ \t]*[^,)]+)?(,[ \t]*@(([A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9_.]*)+)([ \t]*=[ \t]*[^,)]+)?){7}/\8/f,field/
--regex-coffee=/((constructor|initialize):[ \t]*\()@(([A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9_.]*)+)([ \t]*=[ \t]*[^,)]+)?(,[ \t]*@(([A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9_.]*)+)([ \t]*=[ \t]*[^,)]+)?){8}/\8/f,field/
--regex-coffee=/((constructor|initialize):[ \t]*\()@(([A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9_.]*)+)([ \t]*=[ \t]*[^,)]+)?(,[ \t]*@(([A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9_.]*)+)([ \t]*=[ \t]*[^,)]+)?){9}/\8/f,field/

[bigdawggi]

In PHP file, this also does not work. I'm unfamiliar with ctags. Is that a required step to get these definitions to work?

I initially posted here, but was directed to the symbols view and found this similar issue.

[zenhob]

@bigdawggi You can see the languages supported by your ctags command with ctags --list-languages, it looks like PHP is included by default. Make sure you're generating a tags file in your project directory.

[bigdawggi]

Thanks @zenhob, I didn't know about needing to generate a ctags file for projects. So for each project, do the following

cd {your project directory}
ctags -R .

After that, the Go to Declaration worked like a charm for me.

For posterity: I had to install ctags using homebrew...just brew install ctags and then alias the full path (mine was /usr/local/Cellar/ctags/5.8/bin/ctags) to use the -R option.

Thanks again!

[zenhob]

It looks like someone released a plugin for generating tags file: https://atom.io/packages/symbol-gen

[bigdawggi]

That works great too, thanks!

[adis-me]

Is there some shortcut for Go to declaration? Or do I have to rightclick each time and select menuitem Go to declaration?

[noseglid]

@adis-me cmd-alt-down

https://github.com/atom/symbols-view/blob/master/keymaps/symbols-view.cson#L3

[adis-me]

@noseglid 👍 Works perfectly!

[crucialfelix]

Also not working for me most of the time. I have Key Binding Resolver open, I can see the command being called. Nothing happens, nothing is posted in the console.

I have a tags file and I can easily find the item using shift-cmd-R.

Perhaps its because there are multiple results. eg. "FAFeed" matches FAFeed RSSFAFeed DelimedFAFeed etc. ? Exact match should be automatically selected IMO.

[glennhoward]

@bigdawggi, thanks for the comments, worked like a charm for me using them.

[crucialfelix]

Still does not work 90% of the time for me in python. I have no idea why. There is definitely an up to date tags file and command-shift-R finds the item quite easily. But go to declaration does not work.

[rjbergerud]

Also not working with javascript - using right click menu and 'go to declaration' does nothing.

[basarat]

The only help I need for TypeScript is "What's under the cursor on right click"

[rjbergerud]

[basarat]

I can see that you are using getLastCursor

symbols-view/lib/tag-reader.coffee

Lines 18 to 24 in 14abf2b

	find: (editor, callback) ->
	if editor.getLastCursor().getScopeDescriptor().getScopesArray().indexOf('source.ruby') isnt -1
	# Include ! and ? in word regular expression for ruby files
	range = editor.getLastCursor().getCurrentWordBufferRange(wordRegex: /[\w!?]*/g)
	else
	range = editor.getLastCursor().getCurrentWordBufferRange()
	symbol = editor.getTextInRange(range)

The last cursor is not necessarily the place the user right clicked :

As you can see getLastCursor thinks its row 52 while I actually clicked on row 61. This is the behaviour for all lanugages.

[thomasmodeneis]

Hi I also cannot make the go to declaration work for methods and variables when they are exported in a another package.

example:

import (    "test/auth" )
auth.AuthenticateUser()
auth.Host

Atom version

Version 0.196.0 (0.196.0)

Also I'm not clear why such a command (go to declaration) need to be cmd+alt+down ??. All my life with Eclipse, Jetbrains, Webstorm is cmd or ctrl(windows). Would be possible for us not to re-invent the weel and just use the default ?
Thanks

[mnquintana]

@thomasmodeneis You're using a pretty old version of Atom – can you update to the latest version (0.205.0) and see if you can still reproduce this?

[wy193777]

Using Ubuntu 12.04 + 0.207.0. Opened an rails project. It doesn't work even for same file.

[wy193777]

After install atom-ctag, it worked. So I know now!

[edugmes]

@noseglid ctrl-alt-down does not work for me. I already installed symbol-gen as @zenhob suggested and got the 'go to declaration' working under the context menu, but the shortcut for it (ctrl-alt-down) enables multiple line edition instead. Any workaround?

[s2t2]

sorry if i missed it, but what is the fix for making "go to declaration" work? in my experience it has never worked...

[oliverbarnes]

+1. symbol-gen installed, neither contextual menu nor alt-cmd-down work. Tried custom configuring the shortcut, no luck either. With Ruby

[crucialfelix]

Its not that the key command is not assigned correctly.
You can turn on key resolver and watch it go-to-declaration get triggered
and after that its a silent failure of some sort.
Other times it mysteriously works (same codebase, same project).

It needs to have some multi-provider solution like autocomplete does. If
you are editing python then python jedi should be able to respond with an
answer. If it doesn't know then fall back to parsed symbols (with a
multiple choice pop up if needed).

If you edit javascript then atom-ternjs could give a good answer.

For this current issue/bug we would love to see some debug posted to
console indicating that something tried and failed.
Because right now we have some people saying it works, and yet for many of
us it clearly doesn't and there's nothing we can do.

On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 6:43 PM Oliver Azevedo Barnes <
[email protected]> wrote:

+1. symbol-gen installed, neither contextual menu nor alt-cmd-down work.
Tried custom configuring the shortcut, no luck either

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[oliverbarnes]

started working for me after I selected Packages > Symbols > Generate for Project (previously I had tried the shortcut for this, alt-cmd-g).

[crucialfelix]

I have symbols generated, that does not solve the issue for me.

[bijoythomas]

I have the same issue here. Generated the ctags file using the ctags command. I see that symbols-view:go-to-declaration is being triggered on cmd-alt-down, but nothing happens. The project-symbols works by showing everything but the go-to-declaration doesn't.

[johnnyfreeman]

This comment fixed it for me. Thanks @bigdawggi.

[Tatsujinichi]

Does not work for me with javascript. cmd-r works fine.

[renylin]

Does not work "fine" for me with python. I have tags file with the project, cmd+shift+r works fine so the tags file is working.
If I select the function without some letters, for example select find_functio of the find_function(), it can work. Or I add a blank between the fund_function and (), it can work too.

ATOM Version 1.7.4
OSX 10.11.5

[frank0718]

with ctags : alt + cmd + down
without ctags : cmd + R
worked for me

[AndrewKiri]

Doesn't work for CSS. Also, Ctags don't support it.
Atom version 1.8.0

[kylegmaxwell]

atom-ctags worked for me (after restarting twice)
https://atom.io/packages/atom-ctags

[pabloab]

With atom-ctags I get Warning from atom-ctags: atom-ctags replaces and enhances the symbols-view package. Therefore, symbols-view has been disabled.. Remember to apm enable symbols-view if you disable/uninstall atom-ctags.

By default on Linux you will get Emacs ctag. As said here to run the real ctags install exuberant-ctags package (considering this and this seems the one Atom currently use). Maybe better is to use Atom symbol-gen

Sorry to hear the use of Ctrl+Alt+Down by default, some Linux distros use Ctrl+Alt+Arrows to move across desktops/workspaces.

[jduhls]

CTRL + click on windows and CMD + click on macOS (did not test!) works fine. The context menu item does nothing. Latest atom on win10 with typescript IDE.

[damianobarbati]

Totally broken with Javascript / ES modules