Go to declaration not working without ctags

[museattle]

This method should work out of the box without the need to generate a ctags file.
Thanks, Marty

[pyronaur]

+1

I was quite surprised when I discovered that I have to generate something for it to work...

[tomkadwill]

+1 It took me a while to figure out why 'Go To Declaration' was not working

[sangraal]

+1 Very confusing.

[dyross]

Here's someone else's attempt to do this:

https://github.com/mkleehammer/goto

I think atom core folks should adopt @mkleehammer's strategy.

[adred]

+1

[hkdobrev]

As you know Sublime Text does this as well. If you used it you know it proves that symbol extraction based on the syntax definition files is quite better than ctags.

+1

[resistdesign]

+47 Million

[evjan]

+1

[jingpengw]

+1

[w3solution]

Installing “goto@1.7.1” failed.Hide output… :(

[rochapablo]

+1

[rkyymmt]

+1

[Druotic]

+1

[joboscribe]

As a stopgap i would suggest removing it from the context menu by default and only enabling it once it's actually usable, or having a helpful message prompting the user to generate a tags file. Just doing nothing isn't very helpful.

[Soleone]

same here, would be great if a) this feature could work out of the box like in sublime3 and b) does not require adding a file or directory in the project folder (has to be git ignored and sometimes didn't seem to recognize my global .gitignore and added the file to the staging area)

[levythu]

Should it be assembled to the other package which can generate ctags automatically?

[RichardJECooke]

Hi. I'm new to Atom & Ruby. How do I get this to work please? I need to make 'ctags'?

[1Rhino]

👍 confused! 😢

[grammakov]

😕

[sbussard]

😕

[sethuster]

How is this still a problem?

[sbussard]

@sethuster check out https://nuclide.io

[kenorb]

Related:

• Enhancement - generate project tags internally and hide from user #138 - Enhancement - generate project tags internally and hide from user
• symbols-view:go-to-declaration doesn't work #9 - symbols-view:go-to-declaration doesn't work