gopls/doc/settings.md

# Settings

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This document describes the global settings for `gopls` inside the editor.
The settings block will be called `"gopls"` and contains a collection of
controls for `gopls` that the editor is not expected to understand or control.
These settings can also be configured differently per workspace folder.

In VSCode, this would be a section in your `settings.json` file that might look
like this:

```json5
  "gopls": {
    "usePlaceholders": true,
    "completeUnimported": true
  },
```

## Officially supported

Below is the list of settings that are officially supported for `gopls`.

Any settings that are experimental or for debugging purposes are marked as
such.

To enable all experimental features, use **allExperiments: `true`**. You will
still be able to independently override specific experimental features.

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* [Build](#build)
* [Formatting](#formatting)
* [UI](#ui)
  * [Completion](#completion)
  * [Diagnostic](#diagnostic)
  * [Documentation](#documentation)
  * [Navigation](#navigation)

### Build

#### **buildFlags** *[]string*

buildFlags is the set of flags passed on to the build system when invoked.
It is applied to queries like `go list`, which is used when discovering files.
The most common use is to set `-tags`.

Default: `[]`.

#### **env** *map[string]string*

env adds environment variables to external commands run by `gopls`, most notably `go list`.

Default: `{}`.

#### **directoryFilters** *[]string*

directoryFilters can be used to exclude unwanted directories from the
workspace. By default, all directories are included. Filters are an
operator, `+` to include and `-` to exclude, followed by a path prefix
relative to the workspace folder. They are evaluated in order, and
the last filter that applies to a path controls whether it is included.
The path prefix can be empty, so an initial `-` excludes everything.

Examples:
Exclude node_modules: `-node_modules`
Include only project_a: `-` (exclude everything), `+project_a`
Include only project_a, but not node_modules inside it: `-`, `+project_a`, `-project_a/node_modules`

Default: `[]`.

#### **expandWorkspaceToModule** *bool*

**This setting is experimental and may be deleted.**

expandWorkspaceToModule instructs `gopls` to adjust the scope of the
workspace to find the best available module root. `gopls` first looks for
a go.mod file in any parent directory of the workspace folder, expanding
the scope to that directory if it exists. If no viable parent directory is
found, gopls will check if there is exactly one child directory containing
a go.mod file, narrowing the scope to that directory if it exists.

Default: `true`.

#### **experimentalWorkspaceModule** *bool*

**This setting is experimental and may be deleted.**

experimentalWorkspaceModule opts a user into the experimental support
for multi-module workspaces.

Default: `false`.

#### **experimentalPackageCacheKey** *bool*

**This setting is experimental and may be deleted.**

experimentalPackageCacheKey controls whether to use a coarser cache key
for package type information to increase cache hits. This setting removes
the user's environment, build flags, and working directory from the cache
key, which should be a safe change as all relevant inputs into the type
checking pass are already hashed into the key. This is temporarily guarded
by an experiment because caching behavior is subtle and difficult to
comprehensively test.

Default: `true`.

#### **allowModfileModifications** *bool*

**This setting is experimental and may be deleted.**

allowModfileModifications disables -mod=readonly, allowing imports from
out-of-scope modules. This option will eventually be removed.

Default: `false`.

#### **allowImplicitNetworkAccess** *bool*

**This setting is experimental and may be deleted.**

allowImplicitNetworkAccess disables GOPROXY=off, allowing implicit module
downloads rather than requiring user action. This option will eventually
be removed.

Default: `false`.

### Formatting

#### **local** *string*

local is the equivalent of the `goimports -local` flag, which puts
imports beginning with this string after third-party packages. It should
be the prefix of the import path whose imports should be grouped
separately.

Default: `""`.

#### **gofumpt** *bool*

gofumpt indicates if we should run gofumpt formatting.

Default: `false`.

### UI

#### **codelenses** *map[string]bool*

codelenses overrides the enabled/disabled state of code lenses. See the
"Code Lenses" section of the
[Settings page](https://github.com/golang/tools/blob/master/gopls/doc/settings.md)
for the list of supported lenses.

Example Usage:

```json5
"gopls": {
...
  "codelens": {
    "generate": false,  // Don't show the `go generate` lens.
    "gc_details": true  // Show a code lens toggling the display of gc's choices.
  }
...
}
```

Default: `{"gc_details":false,"generate":true,"regenerate_cgo":true,"tidy":true,"upgrade_dependency":true,"vendor":true}`.

#### **semanticTokens** *bool*

**This setting is experimental and may be deleted.**

semanticTokens controls whether the LSP server will send
semantic tokens to the client.

Default: `false`.

#### Completion

##### **usePlaceholders** *bool*

placeholders enables placeholders for function parameters or struct
fields in completion responses.

Default: `false`.

##### **completionBudget** *time.Duration*

**This setting is for debugging purposes only.**

completionBudget is the soft latency goal for completion requests. Most
requests finish in a couple milliseconds, but in some cases deep
completions can take much longer. As we use up our budget we
dynamically reduce the search scope to ensure we return timely
results. Zero means unlimited.

Default: `"100ms"`.

##### **matcher** *enum*

**This is an advanced setting and should not be configured by most `gopls` users.**

matcher sets the algorithm that is used when calculating completion
candidates.

Must be one of:

* `"CaseInsensitive"`
* `"CaseSensitive"`
* `"Fuzzy"`
Default: `"Fuzzy"`.

#### Diagnostic

##### **analyses** *map[string]bool*

analyses specify analyses that the user would like to enable or disable.
A map of the names of analysis passes that should be enabled/disabled.
A full list of analyzers that gopls uses can be found
[here](https://github.com/golang/tools/blob/master/gopls/doc/analyzers.md).

Example Usage:

```json5
...
"analyses": {
  "unreachable": false, // Disable the unreachable analyzer.
  "unusedparams": true  // Enable the unusedparams analyzer.
}
...
```

Default: `{}`.

##### **staticcheck** *bool*

**This setting is experimental and may be deleted.**

staticcheck enables additional analyses from staticcheck.io.

Default: `false`.

##### **annotations** *map[string]bool*

**This setting is experimental and may be deleted.**

annotations specifies the various kinds of optimization diagnostics
that should be reported by the gc_details command.

Can contain any of:

* `"bounds"` controls bounds checking diagnostics.

* `"escape"` controls diagnostics about escape choices.

* `"inline"` controls diagnostics about inlining choices.

* `"nil"` controls nil checks.

Default: `{"bounds":true,"escape":true,"inline":true,"nil":true}`.

##### **experimentalDiagnosticsDelay** *time.Duration*

**This setting is experimental and may be deleted.**

experimentalDiagnosticsDelay controls the amount of time that gopls waits
after the most recent file modification before computing deep diagnostics.
Simple diagnostics (parsing and type-checking) are always run immediately
on recently modified packages.

This option must be set to a valid duration string, for example `"250ms"`.

Default: `"250ms"`.

#### Documentation

##### **hoverKind** *enum*

hoverKind controls the information that appears in the hover text.
SingleLine and Structured are intended for use only by authors of editor plugins.

Must be one of:

* `"FullDocumentation"`
* `"NoDocumentation"`
* `"SingleLine"`
* `"Structured"` is an experimental setting that returns a structured hover format.
This format separates the signature from the documentation, so that the client
can do more manipulation of these fields.\
This should only be used by clients that support this behavior.

* `"SynopsisDocumentation"`
Default: `"FullDocumentation"`.

##### **linkTarget** *string*

linkTarget controls where documentation links go.
It might be one of:

* `"godoc.org"`
* `"pkg.go.dev"`

If company chooses to use its own `godoc.org`, its address can be used as well.

Default: `"pkg.go.dev"`.

##### **linksInHover** *bool*

linksInHover toggles the presence of links to documentation in hover.

Default: `true`.

#### Navigation

##### **importShortcut** *enum*

importShortcut specifies whether import statements should link to
documentation or go to definitions.

Must be one of:

* `"Both"`
* `"Definition"`
* `"Link"`
Default: `"Both"`.

##### **symbolMatcher** *enum*

**This is an advanced setting and should not be configured by most `gopls` users.**

symbolMatcher sets the algorithm that is used when finding workspace symbols.

Must be one of:

* `"CaseInsensitive"`
* `"CaseSensitive"`
* `"Fuzzy"`
Default: `"Fuzzy"`.

##### **symbolStyle** *enum*

**This is an advanced setting and should not be configured by most `gopls` users.**

symbolStyle controls how symbols are qualified in symbol responses.

Example Usage:

```json5
"gopls": {
...
  "symbolStyle": "dynamic",
...
}
```

Must be one of:

* `"Dynamic"` uses whichever qualifier results in the highest scoring
match for the given symbol query. Here a "qualifier" is any "/" or "."
delimited suffix of the fully qualified symbol. i.e. "to/pkg.Foo.Field" or
just "Foo.Field".

* `"Full"` is fully qualified symbols, i.e.
"path/to/pkg.Foo.Field".

* `"Package"` is package qualified symbols i.e.
"pkg.Foo.Field".

Default: `"Dynamic"`.

#### **verboseOutput** *bool*

**This setting is for debugging purposes only.**

verboseOutput enables additional debug logging.

Default: `false`.

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## Code Lenses

These are the code lenses that `gopls` currently supports. They can be enabled
and disabled using the `codelenses` setting, documented above. Their names and
features are subject to change.

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### **Run go generate**

Identifier: `generate`

generate runs `go generate` for a given directory.

### **Regenerate cgo**

Identifier: `regenerate_cgo`

regenerate_cgo regenerates cgo definitions.

### **Run test(s)**

Identifier: `test`

test runs `go test` for a specific test function.

### **Run go mod tidy**

Identifier: `tidy`

tidy runs `go mod tidy` for a module.

### **Upgrade dependency**

Identifier: `upgrade_dependency`

upgrade_dependency upgrades a dependency.

### **Run go mod vendor**

Identifier: `vendor`

vendor runs `go mod vendor` for a module.

### **Toggle gc_details**

Identifier: `gc_details`

gc_details controls calculation of gc annotations.

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