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**donire** · September 5, 2024, 6:49am

Hi,

I’m using Sublime Text 4169 and recently GoTo Definition has stopped working - it only works within the current unit - or a unit that is currently open.
It will not find a unit and open it - previously it did this without fuss.

Anyone got any ideas?

**jfcherng** · September 5, 2024, 7:18am

ST’s “built-in” GoTo Definition is basing on index, which is the whole project.

If you are using other plugin’s, then it’s per-plugin behavior obviously.

**donire** · September 5, 2024, 8:24am

I’m not using any other plug-ins - but definitions in files that are not open are not found, although the directory in which they reside has been added to the project.

This used to work.

Obviously, I must be missing some really obvious point.

Any clues?

**giampaolo** · September 5, 2024, 8:52am

If you open your settings you’ll probably find this:

   "index_files": false,

Set it to true, or remove the entry completely, and the “find symbols in project” functionality should work again.

This is a problem that I have quite often (once a month or something). I believe there is some package, most likely https://github.com/wbond/package_control, that adds the entry as a temporary step, but then if you unexpectedly close ST while PC is doing its work the entry won’t get reverted.

**giampaolo** · September 5, 2024, 8:48am

It seems that might indeed be the case:

github.com

wbond/package_control/blob/92dfeb3247ccfd80a748c3ce94beab1361a1f8a4/package_control/package_disabler.py#L442-L449


index_files = settings.get('index_files', True)
if index_files:
    try:
        # note: uses persistent cookie to survive PC updates.
        with open(os.path.join(pc_cache_dir(), 'backup.json'), 'x', encoding='utf-8') as fobj:
            json.dump({'index_files': index_files}, fobj)
        settings.set('index_files', False)
        console_write('pausing indexer')

**giampaolo** · September 5, 2024, 8:59am

Also see https://github.com/wbond/package_control/issues/1639.
@deathaxe sorry for the ping but… are we sure this is solved? It happened to me some days ago.

**donire** · September 5, 2024, 10:39am

“index_files”: true,

This change works fine, thx.

**deathaxe** · September 5, 2024, 3:13pm

I haven’t realized any issues anymore in none of my portable setups. All package updates all worked fine with index state being restored. But maybe I just don’t meet the requirements for a possible bug to be triggered.

**Release-Candidate** · September 5, 2024, 7:58pm

This (setting index_files to false) happened to me sometime between the 28th and the 30th of August.

**deathaxe** · September 8, 2024, 9:53am

Package Control 4.0.8 ships some modifications to attempt improve indexer resuming reliability.

Please keep an eye on that indexer state being correctly restored.

Goto Definition not working for closed files