Maybe I’m wrong, but I’m not sure this is accurate.  rustdoc does all of this 
with libsyntax including jumping to the line of the actual source code for a 
symbol.  Maybe it isn’t perfectly ideal for some tools, but I don’t think it is 
anywhere near a lost cause.

Eric

On Mar 12, 2014, at 2:52 PM, Clark Gaebel <[email protected]> wrote:

> 
> ​There is no accurate jump-to-definition, type retrieval, docstring
> retrieval or semantic completion for Rust. The compiler was not built
> with support for this kind of tooling in mind, and I seriously doubt
> that anything but inaccurate hacks will exist for a *long* time.​
> 
> ​This worries me a lot.
> 
> -- 
> Clark.
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