Search-based code intelligence
Sourcegraph comes with built-in code intelligence provided by search-based heuristics.
If you are interested in enabling precise code intelligence for your repository, see our quickstart guide.
How does it work?
Search-based code intelligence is able to provide 3 core code intelligence features:
- Jump to definition: it performs a symbol search
- Hover documentation: it first finds the definition then extracts documentation from comments near the definition
- Find references: it performs a case-sensitive word-boundary cross-repository plain text search for the given symbol
Search-based code intelligence also filters results by file extension and by imports at the top of the file for some languages.
What languages are supported?
Search-based code intelligence supports all of the most popular programming languages.
Are you using a language we don't support? File a GitHub issue or submit a PR.
Why are my results sometimes incorrect?
Search-based code intelligence uses search-based heuristics, rather than parsing the code into an abstract syntax tree (AST). Incorrect results occur more often for tokens with common names (such as Get) than for tokens with more unique names simply because those tokens appear more often in the search index.
If you require 100% confidence in accuracy for a definition or reference results for a symbol you hovered over we recommend utilizing precise code intelligence. Scenarios where you may still get search-based code intelligence results even with precision on are described in more detail in the precise code intelligence docs.