GoDoc cannot distinguish a variable from a package name

[ersiner]

Consider the following code snippet:

var lines []string
scanner := bufio.NewScanner(file)
for scanner.Scan() {
  lines = append(lines, scanner.Text())
}

When I try to lookup documentation for Scan(), GoDocBrowser tries to open https://godoc.org/scanner#Scan as if scanner is a package name and if course it's not correct.

[fatih]

Thanks @ersiner for reporting. I'm aware of this problem. We need to change :GoDoc to find the underlying identifier to match and jump to the doc directly. I'm closing this in favor of the duplicate already open issue #332 (which is not yet resolved).