ctrl + click "go to definition" clashes with ctrl + click "follow link"

@AngusWR commented on Wed Sep 25 2019

Environment data

• VS Code version: Version: 1.38.1
• Extension version (available under the Extensions sidebar): Version: 2019.9.34911
• OS and version: Windows 10 Pro 1903 18362.356
• Python version (& distribution if applicable, e.g. Anaconda): 3.6.7

Expected behaviour

ctrl + click on a string representation of a url opens the url in chrome

Actual behaviour

ctrl + click on a string representation of a url opens the url in chrome and also goes to the definition for str in builtins.pyi

Holding ctrl and hovering the url:

After clicking the url

I haven’t been able to find a way of changing the key binding for the “go to definition” feature. Any advice?

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@karrtikr commented on Thu Sep 26 2019

For changing keybindings, go to File -> Preferences -> Keyboard shortcuts. Search for Go to definition. Anyways, this is controlled by VSCode, not the extension. So I am transferring the issue.

[matthewbordas]

Any updates on this? It’s a very painful issue when writing in Golang. I can’t seem to find a workaround other than using F12 or right-click + Go to Definition, both of which are slower than ctrl/cmd + click. Thank you!

[stamblerre]

We’ve also encountered this issue, specifically with developing the Go language server. We wanted to make import statements (like import "fmt") link to documentation on the package, so we implemented textDocument/documentLink for import statements. We also figured that a user may not always have an Internet connection and should also be able to jump to the source code of the package, so we implemented that in textDocument/definition.

However, the result is that, if the user does a Ctrl + Click on an import statement, VS Code will both open a link and jump to the definition of the package, which is not a great user experience. Is there any way to work around this, or should we just disable one of the two behaviors?