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Comment by eru

1 month ago

Sure, there might be multiple definitions to jump to.

With grep you get lots of false positives, and for some languages you need a lot of extra rules to know what to grep for. (Eg in Python you might read `+` in the caller, but you actually need to grep for __add__ to find the definition.)

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