Vim-go question.

<p>I really try my best not to use this subreddit as stack overflow, but I am a bit stumped by an error I&#39;m getting and can&#39;t find any evidence that anyone has ever asked about the error message I get as google returns zero results.</p> <p>I got assigned an existing project and pulled the repo into my gopath, I&#39;m trying to understand the code, so i ran :GoDef on a function and got an error I haven&#39;t seen before.</p> <p><code> vim-go: guru: cannot load package in root of source directory *GOPATH/src/github.com/*name*/*directory/*subdirectory^@ </code></p> <p>In any other directory in my gopath, I have no problems with GoDef. I can&#39;t find any results on this error. </p> <p>Has anyone dealt with this before? Can anyone explain what it is I don&#39;t understand here?</p> <p>EDIT: After playing around some more, I have found that I can run :GoDef on functions that are defined in outside packages, but not ones that are defined in my main package.</p> <hr/>**评论：**<br/><br/>x7C3: <pre><p>Have you installed the vim-go required packages? I <em>think</em> its <code>:GoInstall</code></p></pre>kostix: <pre><p>Almost correct: it&#39;s <code>:GoInstallBinaries</code>. To cite <a href="https://github.com/fatih/vim-go" rel="nofollow">the documentation</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Please be sure all necessary binaries are installed (such as gocode, godef, goimports, etc.). You can easily install them with the included <code>:GoInstallBinaries</code>command. If invoked, all necessary binaries will be automatically downloaded and installed to your <code>$GOBIN</code> environment (if not set it will use <code>$GOPATH/bin</code>). Note that this command requires git for fetching the individual Go packages. Additionally, use <code>:GoUpdateBinaries</code> to update the installed binaries.</p> </blockquote> <p>The <code>:GoInstall</code> command runs <code>go install</code> on your project.</p> <p>To the OP: <a href="/u/x7C3" rel="nofollow">/u/x7C3</a> is correct: <code>vim-go</code> by default works more like the venerable (and removed since some time ago) filetype plugin and syntax highlighter for Go once shipped with Go itself. Basically it implements a set of simple commands like running <code>go fmt</code> on the opened file, building and installing your project, running its tests etc.</p> <p>In order to do real heavy-lifting, <code>vim-go</code> makes use of 3rd-party tooling which it&#39;s able to fetch from their well-known locations, compile and install in your default Go workspace, and then use.</p></pre>hoverage: <pre><p>I have. I should mention that I have 3 personal projects in my gopath that have no problems running any vim-go commands at all. It&#39;s only in this one, single, project that I cloned. I can&#39;t figure it out. Nobody has used this error message, but I was hoping that would be something obvious to people here. </p> <p>I get autocompletion on all structs and functions from within other files, but I cannot jump to the definition of the struct or function using GoDef (or GoDoc even) in this one project.</p></pre>