full package docs in a separate view

[apiarian]

It would be great to have access to the output of godoc for a package (and possibly a specific identifier) within the editor without having to open up a browser to godoc.org or similar.

Should be possible using https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/extensionAPI/vscode-api#TextDocumentContentProvider . Some care will need to be taken to handle vendored code correctly. godoc seems to default to looking in the $GOPATH or $GOROOT so we'll probably have to explicitly check $PROJECTROOT/vendor first.

I'd like to take this issue on myself, but it'll be my first foray into vscode extensions out of my backend-development cave, so if somebody is keen to see this quicker, please let me know. I'd certainly be willing to hand the branch over or collaborate on the work.

[apiarian]

Looks like this is probably related to #789

[apiarian]

created https://github.com/apiarian/vscode-go-test-docs-main to help with documentation experiments.

[ramya-rao-a]

@apiarian Let's use #789 to track this.