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* Function renames * Function references across packages * imports on save

Some of this can be fixed by restarting gopls (experimental) ever 20m: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-go/wiki/Go-modules-suppo...

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Are you using an old version of gopls?

From the v0.3.0 release notes[1]:

Workspace-scoped references, rename, and go to implementation. These features use your workspace root as the search scope, so behavior will vary based on the directory you open in your editor

[1] https://github.com/golang/go/issues/33030#issuecomment-51015...

Yup, v0.3.0 here (gopls version) and still broken.

If you haven't already, it sounds like it would probably be worth your time to open an issue. If things like workspace-scoped references and renaming aren't working for you when they are working for other people, perhaps you have a non-standard setting, or perhaps there is a need to adjust how you open vscode, or perhaps you are hitting bug(s). My experience has been the people working on gopls are very responsive.

VS Code is a text editor not an IDE, right? That's what its proponents always boasted in the beginning at least.

I just got work to pay for a GoLand licensed for me. The VSC experience was slower, more RAM hungry and not as full featured, so it didn't really make sense to stick with.

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