Jump through aliases with go to definition

[keith]

It seems that by default the definition LSP call will (reasonably) jump to the common pattern where folks re-export symbols. I think in the common case I would prefer it jump through that alias straight to the underlying definition.

For example on this rule:

shared_library( < - cursor somewhere on this line
    name = "foo",
    srcs = glob(["*.cpp"]),
    ...
)

And you jump to the definition, you can end up in a file like this:

load("//bazel/internal:shared_library.bzl", _shared_library = "shared_library")
shared_library = _shared_library

Then you need to do another jump to definition on the right hand side of the assignment to get through to the underlying definition.

[PeterCardenas]

maybe this can be what go to declaration does?

[withered-magic]

"Go to Declaration" now does this by default! You can also enable the --experimental_goto_definition_skip_re_exports flag to enable this for "Go to Definition" as well if you so like