Definition Completion is not invoked for non-word tokens (like ++ operators) when ctrl-hovering

[LordOfDragons]

See microsoft/vscode-languageserver-node#1383 .

In language server onDefinition() is not called. According to the above issue this is because VS-Code does only call definition completion on word tokens. I would like though to also show definition completion for operators like "++" and so forth.

Would it be possible to add somehow the support to call onDefinition also on non-operators?

It would be fine enough if there is added a new language server property which allows to declare a list of tokens that should trigger definition completion although they are not text tokens. Maybe something like:

additionalDefinitionTokens = ['++', '--', '+', ... ]

[RedCMD]

are you talking about ctrl+hover? or ctrl+click?
the ctrl+hover underline (and hover) is only invoked when the language-configuration.json setting "wordPattern" matches
which by default is \w+

[LordOfDragons]

Yes, I mean ctrl+hover

[RedCMD]

currently cpp specifically ignores all non-word chars

vscode/extensions/cpp/language-configuration.json

Line 27 in 0a284dd

"wordPattern": "(-?\\d*\\.\\d\\w*)|([^\\`\\~\\!\\@\\#\\%\\^\\&\\*\\(\\)\\-\\=\\+\\[\\{\\]\\}\\\\\\|\\;\\:\\'\\\"\\,\\.\\<\\>\\/\\?\\s]+)",

changing it would fix this
but "wordPattern" is also used for symbol highlighting, basic intellisense and a few others

maybe VSCode could add a triggerRegex to the definitionProvider(), that would overwrite the default "wordPattern" regex
same as how the completionProvider() has triggerCharacters