How to Open Definition in GoClipse

The Open Definition operation in a default installation of Go and GoClipse does not work. This functionality of being able to jump to the definition of a type or function is provided by a tool named godef.

• Installing godef is easy:

$ go get -v github.com/rogpeppe/godef

This installs a godef binary in the $GOPATH/bin directory.

• Open Window -> Preferences -> Go -> Tools and set the path to the godef binary here.

• Restart Eclipse. Right-click on any member or function and choose Open Definition, it should work now!

Note that GoClipse still does not provide the useful feature of showing details of a type or function in tooltip when you hover over something in the source file.

Tried with: GoClipse 0.14.1, Eclipse 4.5.2, Go 1.6.2 and Ubuntu 14.04