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Yes this is probably a good first issue to work on if you want to contribute.

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I am going to look into implementing this. I am new to the source code, although have some limited experience with Rust. If you have any tips on ideas on how to implement this, feel free to let me know.

At first perusal of the project, my plan is to investigate using the document_symbols(...) function to see if that will give me a starting point for creating the LSIF dump.

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Document symbols is a good place to start. It will give you the location where every signal etc (named entity) is defined.

If you also need every place where a named entity is referenced you would use the Searcher trait to visit every reference in the AST.

I do not recommend using find all references for every named entity individually since it will traverse the entire AST every time. This is a lot more inefficient than doing it once for all references.

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Ok, thanks for the tip! I was planning on going the latter method, so thanks. I'll update this thread with progress/questions as I go along.

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