How can I jump to class method definition in Atom text editor

Question

Is there an easy way to do this  On Aptana I used Control click and I wish there was a way to do something similar on Atom

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This feature has been built-in into Atom editor (see: symbols-view package), but you need to generate ctags symbols file for your project ^{GH-9, GH-20}.

To do that, install ctags command (e.g. brew install ctags on macOS), then:

Append, link or copy ctags-config to your ~/.ctags, example on macOS:

ln -vs "$(find /Applications/Atom.app -name ctags-config -print -quit)" ~/.ctags

Go to your project folder and run:
```
cd your/project/directory
ctags -R .
```
Restart Atom editor.

Alternatively you can use symbol-gen package to generate ctags symbols file for your project based on the options found in .ctags file. You can install it from Atom Package Manager by: apm install symbol-gen. Then hit CMD-Alt-G to generate tags file for your project.

After following above, you can use Go To Declaration option from the context menu.

On macOS you can use also use the following keyboard shortcuts:

CMD-R to jump to a function/method in the current ,editor
Alt-CMD-Down to go to declaration.

User · Answer

For Typescript users  the  atom-typescript  package adds a typescript aware symbols view  you can trigger it with Cmd R  and it works great to jump to methods-  https   atom io packages atom-typescript alternative-to-symbols-view

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Use atom-ctags as a package for C language with all things you need    Generated ctags for your project  Auto-complete  Go to declaration  Ctrl Alt Down and Alt Click by default  There are customizable options for Click action

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To solve this  you ll need to install only 2 packages  Follow the steps below    Open atom  go to Packages top bar  --  Settings View --  Install Packages Themes  Type  goto  in the search field and click the packages button on the right  Install both  goto 1 8 3   and  goto-definition 1 1 9    or later versions  Make sure both of them are enabled after download  If necessary  you can restart atom  for some people   It should be able to work now  Right-Click on the method attr whatever  then select  Goto Definition

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I also had the same problem  And I find the solution   CTRL ALT G   Update   Thanks to  Joost  install Atom package python-tools to make it work

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I believe the problem with  go to  packages is that they would work diferently for each language   If you use Javascript js-hyperclick and hyperclick  since code-links is deprecated  may do what you need     Use symbols-view package which let your search and jump to functions declaration but just of current opened file  Unfortunately  I don t know of any other language s equivalent   There is also another package which could be useful for go-to in Python  python-tools  As of May 2016  recent version of Atom now support  Go-To  natively  At the GitHub repo for this module you get a list of the following keys    symbols-view toggle-file-symbols to Show all symbols in current file symbols-view toggle-project-symbols to Show all symbols in the project symbols-view go-to-declaration to Jump to the symbol under the cursor  symbols-view return-from-declaration to Return from the jump     I now only have one thing missing with Atom for this  mouse click bindings  There s an open issue on Github if anyone want to follow that feature

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Check out goto package      This is a replacement for Atom   s built-in symbols-view package that   uses Atom   s own syntax files to identify symbols rather than ctags    The ctags project is very useful but it is never going to keep up with   all of the new Atom syntaxes that will be created as Atom grows       Commands          cmd-r - Goto File Symbol    cmd-shift-r - Goto Project Symbol   cmd-alt-down - Goto Declaration    Rebuild Index    Invalidate Index      Link here  https   atom io packages goto  or search  goto  in package installer

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Here are the shortcuts for both mac and windows   For Mac  command   G  For Windows  CTRL ALT G

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As of November 2018 the package autocomplete-python offers this functionality with this key combo    Ctrl Alt G  with mouse cursor on the function call

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I had the same issue and atom-goto-definition  package name goto-definition  worked like charm for me  Please try once  You can download directly from Atom   This package is DEPRECATED  Please check it in Github

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The functionality is already present in atom via the Symbols View package you don t need to install anything   The command you are searching for is symbols-view go-to-declaration  Jump to the symbol under the cursor  which is bound by default to cmd-alt-down on macOS and ctrl-alt-down on Linux   just note that it will work only if you will have generated tags for your project  either via this package or via ctags  exuberant or not

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