Specify location without range

[APerricone]

Hello,
In my server I would like to use "go to definition" to open included files.
It works, my problem is when I go to an opened file it returns to first line, instead I would like to keep the cursor position.
I tried setting range to 0,0,00 and to 0,0,10000,10000 without no luck.
I tried also specifying undefined as range, and the location is ignored.
I am trying with Visual Studio Code, I tried Location and LocationLink.
What is the correct way to do it? is it a VSCode issue?

[rcjsuen]

@APerricone I don't think what you want to do is possible.

What is your use case here? If the user wants to go to the definition of a function, the editor should open the file and place the cursor at the function's declaration (or whatever makes sense in the context of that language). If the application simply switches the editor to the referenced file then the user wouldn't really be going to the definition of that function. If the file is very big, just switching editors doesn't seem to be of much help to the end user.

[APerricone]

the case is go to included file, for example in c++ we have
#include "otherfile.h" if I "do go to definition" in otherfile.h the editor will open otherfile.h, does not matter the position.

[APerricone]

@dbaeumer @rcjsuen no news about it? I don't think it is a big deal...

[dbaeumer]

This either needs a separate request or we need to relax the result of the definition request to not include a positions. Both cases need to be guarded by capabilities. I am happy to accept a PR here. But please note that this can't only be a spec update. You need to provide an implementation of any kind of client as well (see https://github.com/microsoft/language-server-protocol/blob/master/contributing.md)