[Qt-creator] Follow Symbol Under Cursor always takes me to the header file

Eike Ziller Eike.Ziller at qt.io
Fri Feb 19 08:51:59 CET 2021



> On Feb 19, 2021, at 00:04, Michael Jackson <mike.jackson at bluequartz.net> wrote:
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> I have a .cpp file opened. I am sitting at a piece of code and I want to jump to the method definition, I right click and select "Follow Symbol Under Cursor", QtCreator takes me to the "declaration" in the header file. How do I get it to jump to the definition instead?

It should, and it does here, so I think your best shot is to open a bug report and provide details.

Br, Eike

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> As a side note: This has *never* worked for me since I have started using QtCreator. I just put up with it. But this has got to be a "user error" on my part but I can't figure out what should be doing instead. 
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