Open declaration

You can select an element name in your code and quickly navigate to its declaration.

Editor View showing Open Declaration option

Open declaraion will attempt to navigate to the exact declaraion of the selected element. Open declaration requires your file to have the proper include paths set up to the declaraion. If for any reason open declaraion cannot find the declarion, it will display the following message in the status line:

This operation is unavailable on the current selection message.

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