Communities

Writing
Writing
Codidact Meta
Codidact Meta
The Great Outdoors
The Great Outdoors
Photography & Video
Photography & Video
Scientific Speculation
Scientific Speculation
Cooking
Cooking
Electrical Engineering
Electrical Engineering
Judaism
Judaism
Languages & Linguistics
Languages & Linguistics
Software Development
Software Development
Mathematics
Mathematics
Christianity
Christianity
Code Golf
Code Golf
Music
Music
Physics
Physics
Linux Systems
Linux Systems
Power Users
Power Users
Tabletop RPGs
Tabletop RPGs
Community Proposals
Community Proposals
tag:snake search within a tag
answers:0 unanswered questions
user:xxxx search by author id
score:0.5 posts with 0.5+ score
"snake oil" exact phrase
votes:4 posts with 4+ votes
created:<1w created < 1 week ago
post_type:xxxx type of post
Search help
Notifications
Mark all as read See all your notifications »
Q&A

Welcome to Software Development on Codidact!

Will you help us build our independent community of developers helping developers? We're small and trying to grow. We welcome questions about all aspects of software development, from design to code to QA and more. Got questions? Got answers? Got code you'd like someone to review? Please join us.

Post History

71%
+3 −0
Q&A redirect to "main" code in Ruby using Ctrl

Not a direct answer, but it should clarify some things. It redirects me to where the variable was declared Yes, this is called "go to definition/declaration" and it works out of the box in ma...

posted 3y ago by Alexei‭

Answer
#1: Initial revision by user avatar Alexei‭ · 2021-07-02T19:13:09Z (almost 3 years ago)
Not a direct answer, but it should clarify some things.

 > It redirects me to where the variable was declared

Yes, this is called "go to definition/declaration" and it works out of the box in many IDEs for variables, function names etc. This is due to the fact that the IDE understands what the selected token is (e.g. variables or o function name) and create a link between its declaration (definition) and its usage.

 > But, when I click on any linked page it doesn't redirect. I tried to click on comments/comment.

'comments/comment' looks like a string and the IDE typically does not interpret the content of a string, or at least for the specific case of go-to definition functionality.