Roles

This page provides an overview of the features Esbonio provides to make working with reStructuredText Roles easier.

Completion

The most obvious feature is the completion suggestions, try inserting a :ref: role on the next line that links to the rst-roles-completion label defined above.

In addition to :ref: labels, esbonio supports suggesting values for manny other types of target

• Local docnames for the doc role

• Local filenames for the download role

• Python objects for roles like py:class, py:func and more!

• Targets defined in other Sphinx documentation sites for the external role! See sphinx.ext.intersphinx – Link to other projects’ documentation for more details

Feel free to experiment with each of the roles mentioned above!

Document Links

Many text editors will automatically detect links to webpages e.g. https://sphinx-doc.org and make them clickable. The textDocument/documentLink request allows language servers to do the same.

When it makes sense to, esbonio will add clickable links to many role targets, including

• Local docname references

• Local files ./roles.rst

• Intersphinx references e.g. Exceptions raised during logging

See for yourself by Ctrl+Clicking one of the above references

GoTo …

… Definition

Esbonio supports GoTo Definition requests for role targets, including

• Local files ./roles.rst

• Documents Roles

• References Completion

• Python objects counters.pattern.PatternCounter