TypeScript - ability to go to type definition

[waderyan]

From @wallverb on August 12, 2016 22:36

• VSCode Version: Code - Insiders 1.5.0-insider (e9c80f036645caae7759b3954fc72dbe6c644edf, 2016-08-12T06:04:09.471Z)
• OS Version: Darwin x64 15.6.0

Steps to Reproduce:

interface Test {
}

const test:Test = {}
const test2 = test 

If your cursor is inside Test of const test:Test you can click F12 to go to that type definition - but sometimes you do not have type declared explicitly (infered type) - eg. const test2 then it's impossible to go easily to type defintion. Maybe combination of some key + click (or extra entry in popup) Go to type definition

Copied from original issue: microsoft/vscode#10489

[waderyan]

@dbaeumer this looks like a valid feature request? Is this something provided by VS Code or by Salsa?

[waderyan]

From @dbaeumer on August 17, 2016 15:25

Nice idea.

@waderyan in these cases I do the following: I create a issue against TS and link to it from a VS Code issue (this one). I keep this one as a feature request on our end.

[waderyan]

From @dbaeumer on August 17, 2016 15:26

May be we need a depends-on label to mark these.

[mhegazy]

TypeScript has a goto type command available on the tsserver, see https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/blob/master/src/server/protocol.d.ts#L188.

VSCode needs to expose a new shortcut that calls into this command.