Signature Help and Quick Info do not show function comments for unexported functions

[mousetraps]

Smoke testing, Windows

In the example below, I would expect the "hello" comment to appear in addition to just the function signature.

This works fine for cases like stringutil.Reverse

[ramya-rao-a]

Exported functions from shared libraries seem to show the comments, but none from main.go which is a special go file meant for executables vs shared code.

Definitely a bug

[ramya-rao-a]

We use godoc to get the function documentation to display in Signature Help and Quick Info on hover.

godoc is meant to show documentation for exported members of packages.

Which is why no member in main.go or unexported members of packages do not get the documentation info.

Replacing bug label with enhancement

[ramya-rao-a]

In the latest update of the Go extension (0.6.50), we now support the use of gogetdoc for Goto/Peek Definition, Hover info and Signature Help features. Add "go.docsTool": "gogetdoc" to your setting to enable the use of gogetdoc, reload/restart VS Code and that should fix this issue.