Find all References only list references in the current file and opened file

[MarcusBright]

Is it possible that i can find all references across files in a project.

[kanej]

We would expect find all references to work across files, even if they were not open in the editor.
Is the repo open source?

[MarcusBright]

here is a demo repo: https://github.com/smartcontractkit/ccip-starter-kit-foundry.

when i opened PingPongDemo.sol(node_modules/@chainlink/contracts-ccip/src/v0.8/ccip/applications/PingPongDemo.sol) and refind references, the reference in PingPongDemo.sol showed up.

[kanej]

Thanks, I was able to reproduce this using the demo repo. This is expected behavior.

We do not analyze node_modules for Solidity files directly. We scan the contracts folders (in this case ./src), then analyze each Solidity file in the folder and all its imported dependencies transitively. So PingPongDemo.sol is not part of the initial scan.
Once you open the PingPongDemo.sol file, it gets included in the analysis and hence the references then point to it.

[iFrostizz]

It is true that it may be a bit excessive to check for references in libraries, but currently the ones in a multi-project setup are not found either, same for definitions. Take for example the event called MessageReceived in this repo.
Add a src2/ directory next to the src/ project and inside of it, a file called Message.sol with the following content:

// SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
pragma solidity 0.8.24;

import {MessageReceived} from "src/BasicMessageReceiver.sol";

contract Message {
    function a() public {
        emit MessageReceived(bytes32(0), 0, address(0), "");
    }
}

The MessageReceived event definition cannot be fetched and is not present in the references.