"go to definition" for API docs about fsharp.formatting HOT 6 CLOSED

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👍 Someone just needs to figure out how to do that! It worked in the old FsHtmlDoc so it should not be too hard.

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I took a look at FsHtmlDoc source code; there isn't any part taking care of Go To Definition. Am I missing something here?

One solution would be to provide a source folder and capture location information from corresponding ASTs, but it seems too complicated.

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Oh, @dungpa you're right. I misunderstood - I thought the idea was to make all type/function names in the documentation clickable (cross-linking to the place in the documentation).

I don't think there is an easier way to do this than to walk over the AST to find the locations of all declarations. With a bit of luck, it could probably work over untyped AST which is easy to traverse... but it is certainly non-trivial amount of work (a low-tech solution would be to generate GitHub search link, i.e. for joinAlign which is not as useful, but might be better than nothing).

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As a start it would be ok to jump to the file in github

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It should be closed. An example of this is live at http://fsharp.github.io/FSharp.Compiler.Service/reference/microsoft-fsharp-compiler-sourcecodeservices-interactivechecker.html.

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