Highlight method exit points instead of type name occurrences?

[ctjdr]

Some IDEs like Eclipse provide a feature I find pretty handy and which I would love to see in VS Code:
If I click on a method's return type declaration, the IDE highlights any exit point in the according method body. This includes all return statements, throw statements, and method calls that could throw an unchecked exception.
In addition clicking on the return keyword highlights all other exit points inside the same method.

Currently, if I click on the return type declaration in VS Code it highlights every occurrence of that type name within the same file, which I don't find that useful.

Are there any plans to implement this? Or is the current behavior intended by design and should not change?

Thanks!

P.S.: You do a great job improving Java support in VS Code. Really appreciate it!

[0dinD]

Yeah this would be really handy actually. Since the extension uses a language server based on Eclipse libraries, many features in the Eclipse IDE are fairly straightforward to port. I looked into this one, and it seems pretty simple, so I might submit a PR to implement this when I have time.

[0dinD]

Here, I just implemented it:

Is that what you wanted? I'll need to clean up the code first, so we'll see when I have time to submit a PR.

[ctjdr]

@0dinD, this is great! Exactly what I was after. Looking forward to see the PR getting into the project.

[0dinD]

@ctjdr I've submitted eclipse-jdtls/eclipse.jdt.ls#1941 now, which you can follow to get notified when it gets merged.

[ctjdr]

@0dinD, today while coding I noticed the feature has already arrived in VS Code (most probably with the Feburary update, v1.65). I very much appreciate the effort you put into it. This is fantastic. Thanks!