not working for external crates

[dvic]

I'm having the same issue as with the Visual Code extension: rust-lang/vscode-rust#391.

Is the extension supposed to work also outside the current crate? E.g., when you click on a method from an external crate, you cannot use goto definition from there.

[alexheretic]

This doesn't currently work as the client lib atom-languageclient filters the current project files before sending events to the language server. It isn't trivial to "know" which files outside the project you should be sending to that project's language server.

But I guess the client could keep a record of file locations received in textDocument/definition responses outside of the project and try to treat them as if they were inside the project.

I'm not sure there are any issues yet for this over there. Development also seems to have paused for the lib...

[dvic]

Ah good to know! This is then probably also the cause for the same problem in the Visual Code plugin.

[alexheretic]

atom/atom-languageclient#244