Feature request: use line number + byte offset to highlight errors

[dhowden]

It would be great if the error highlighting would begin at the byte offset reported by the compiler (since go 1.9:golang/go#10324).

[dhowden]

So it looks like the correct information is making it in, but just not being correctly passed to vscode to render: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-go/blob/master/src/goLiveErrors.ts#L87

After some digging I think https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-go/blob/230e7bc3b535b1434492d93682e429289402b87c/src/util.ts#L648 and the processes that use it, need to be updated to support columns.

Will try to make a pull request for this.

[dhowden]

Closing as this has been merged.

Note: go1.10 is known to report some counter-intuitive column locations for certain errors (for instance golang/go#24339, which has been fixed and will be released in go1.11).

[ramya-rao-a]

This feature is now available in the latest update (0.6.78) to the Go extension.