Autocompletion for symbols from non imported packages without typing package name

hi guys, pycharm have a very interesting feature:

Very helpful in developing, there is any plans for this feature?

[ramya-rao-a]

We do show completions for symbols from unimported packages, but we need you to type the package name first.

We show completes for unimported pacakges names themselves if you add "go.autocompleteUnimportedPackages": true to your settings.

But typing a symbol name and then showing all matches with packages is not something we can do given the constraints of the Go tools we use.

But an alternative is the Workspace symbol search. Run the command Go to Symbol in Workspace or Ctr+# or Cmd+# you should be able to type just the symbol name (without package name) and the search will give you the same results as you've shown above.

If you want to include std lib in such searches, add "go.gotoSymbol.includeGoroot": true to your setting

"go.autocompleteUnimportedPackages": true and "go.gotoSymbol.includeGoroot": true is not working as PyCharm, it's a pity, maybe in future)

[ramya-rao-a]

One way we can do this is to include workspace symbol search in the completion results. It may have some perf issues, but is definitely do-able.

PRs are welcome if anybody wants to give this a try.

[ramya-rao-a]

@rokkerruslan Is the scenario here that you know the symbol name but dont know the package name or that you just dont want to type the package name?

[stamblerre]

@heschik: Is this something that gopls could support?

[heschi]

Sure, doing it for packages that have been loaded would be relatively easy. I don't think we'd want to do it for random packages in the module cache.