Go To Definition for whole Workspace?

[vigh1000]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Go To Definition works perfect when the functions were defined in the same file. Unfortunately this doesn't seem to work if the function was defined in another file. The file is present in a folder which is opened in VSCode as a workspace

Describe the solution you'd like
Go To Definition works also for files which are present in the same workspace.

Describe alternatives you've considered
As a workaround i'm using the search in VSCode which works ok. But things like "Peek" etc. would be really neat to have :-).

Additional context
Just want to thank you for the plugin, I really like it :-)

Or am I'm missing something and Go To in Workspace should work?

[qingpeng9802]

The workspace support was considered. However, this support may be difficult to implement correctly.

Usually, when you need to use cross-file definition, you will either use (load "../file.lisp") or a system/package manager, for example ASDF. For load case, it might be easy to implement, but for ASDF case, things get complicated.

If this extension choose to process the ASDF information (kind of like compilation database), it is like re-implementing ASDF in TypeScript, which I would like to avoid. If you need ASDF things, I would suggest to try Common Lisp
ailisp or Alive
Rich Heller. These extensions use the symbols from lisp directly, and they might work with ASDF (although I did not confirm).

In short, load( support is possible to be a feature, but ASDF support is more like a design limitation.

[vigh1000]

Thank you for the quick answer!
We're using (load "../file.lisp"). So I've got a bunch of files in my workspace where the functions are defined and using them in different files.
So if "Go To Definition" would also consider these files, I would be happy :-)

But this is probably what you mean with "implement it correctly"?

[qingpeng9802]

ASDF way is a de facto standard for most development so what I meant was that correctly implementing a fake ASDF.

For (load case, the feature might not be available very soon. The design of the buffer mechanism for files is needed to be considered carefully.