How can I get atom.io's "Go to Declaration" to really do that?

Question

In atom.io, if I right click in "wrappedlabel" here:

<label class="wrappedlabel">"Be Kind to Animammals - Kiss a Duckbilled Platypus Today"</label> 

...it teases me with "Go to Declaration"

Clicking does not take me to that class in the .css file in the project.

Is there a way to get this to actually work? If so, it would be an even sweeter suite. Having it tell me "Go to Declaration" and then leaving me hanging is better than telling me to "go to" [somewhere else], but still...

Answer 1

"Go to declaration" works with symbols used in your project.

The feature requires ctags which need to be generated per project. This can be achieved with the command line or with an atom plugin (https://atom.io/packages/symbol-gen) .

You can follow this issue on github for further details

Answer 2

• In a terminal run

  apm install atom-ctags 

• Restart atom (sometimes twice)

• Open a file in your project
• Context menu - rebuild ctags
• Go to declaration should now work for most places