Can't use 'go to definition' when cursor is at the end of a word

[roblourens]

• Cursor at |: fmt.Println|(stringutil.Reverse("!selpmaxe oG ,olleH"))
• Press F12
• "No definition found for Println"
• Cursor in the middle of the word, it works

[ramya-rao-a]

roblourens Can you check what is your setting value for go.docsTool ? or if you are using the language server?

[yageek]

I have the same error. Switching to gogetdoc did not solve it.

[ramya-rao-a]

Yannick Heinrich (@yageek) Do you have the language server enabled?

I am able to repro when

• the language server is enabled OR
• the language server is disabled and go.docsTool is set to gogetdoc

Not when language server is disabled and go.docsTool is set to godoc

[yageek]

My bad. It does not seems related to the cursor position. In fact, no package from the standard library is suggested, so it is not possible to jump to the declaration of the function.

[ramya-rao-a]

Yannick Heinrich (@yageek) Well, that is much more serious.

I did end up in such a scenario once, getting the latest for the tools solved it for me.

Can you try running the command Go: Install Tools ?

[yageek]

On my side, the issue was related to a mis configured GOROOT env var sur to an error within goenv.
Now everything is fine.

[ramya-rao-a]

Zac Bergquist (@zmb3) gogetdoc returns no pos in such cases. Can you take a look and see if this can be fixed in gogetdoc ?

[zmb3]

Lots of the go tools behave in this way (gogetdoc, guru, gorename, etc)..

I believe the cause is that for:

fmt.Println("hello")
           |

The cursor is positioned at byte 11, and the Println identifier ends at byte 10.

There are two workarounds that have worked well for me:

1. Optionally step back a byte if Guru fails.

2. If your editor supports it, you can ask for the range covered by the current word (treating ( as a valid word character), and then averaging it to get somewhere in the middle.

For example, if your editor allows it, you can tell it to include ( in the list of "word characters" and then ask for the current word position. You'd get something like: 0 > 11, and you average those values to get 5.

I personally prefer option 2.

[ramya-rao-a]

Rename operation works in this case.

Find All References and Go to/Peek Definition features like you said don't though.

This is a corner case, so there is no rush.

Will keep it open if anyone wants to take a shot at sending the updated offset to the tools

[bconway]

I ran into this and assumed that gogetdoc was totally busted. I think one common use case not mentioned here thus far is for people whose muscle memory is to double-click a method to highlight it, and then hit F12. Since that places the cursor at the end of the method, it hits this bug, but it's also how I've used IDEs since forever. Maybe I'm the only one? Would love a fix either way!