Feature Request: <filename>:@<symbol> Syntax to allow for jumping directly to file and symbol at the same time

[mofosyne]

I do some documentation occasionally and found that using line number to be a bit inflexible when the code evolve that the line reference is no longer accurate.

Currently we can do <file>:<linenumber> but what would be nice is if you can also do <file>:<symbol>

I noticed you can do @<symbol> so if you are worrying about conflicting syntax, you could consider <file>:@<symbol>...

So you may type gguf.c:@gguf_context to jump to gguf.c and locate the closest symbol matching gguf_context.

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Extra consideraton. Perhaps you can chain both the line number and symbol so that it will pick the symbol closest to the line number (this is still okay as long as there is not too much line number deviation...) <file>:<line>:@<symbol>

[mjbvz]

Where are you requesting that this be supported?

[mofosyne]

I would like it to be in Command Palette. e.g. ctrl+p then search for filename then symbol

When sharing a reference between people I typically send file:num to others etc... with this new approach i can also send file:symbolname instead and tell them to throw it in the same command pallet where they would usually paste the file and line number.

[mofosyne]

Ideally see if you can make these search syntax composable so you can join it together etc...

[mjbvz]

Closing this based on lack of additional feedback/upvotes since it was opened