Improving Developer Productivity: Project-wide Smart Search in Athas

[arun9557]

I want to suggest an important feature that could make Athas much more powerful and user-friendly, especially for developers working on big projects: Project-level Intelligent Search and Navigation.

What I mean by this is a feature that allows you to easily search the entire project for any symbol — like functions, variables, classes, or modules — and quickly jump to their definitions or all the places they are used within the project.

This feature is a game-changer because:

When working on large and complex codebases, manually searching for where a function or variable is defined or used can waste a lot of time.

With intelligent search, just one click or shortcut lets you jump exactly where you need to be. This speeds up debugging, understanding the code, and making changes.

Popular editors like VS Code and JetBrains IDEs have this built-in, and it vastly improves developer productivity and happiness.

Adding this to Athas would bring it closer to those mature editors in terms of functionality, while still keeping Athas fast and lightweight.

I believe this feature would be a big win for the community and would make Athas even more enjoyable and efficient to use.

What do you all think?