Support code symbols in links, e.g. "https://example.com/myFile.cs#SymbolMyClass"

[markm77]

When linking to GitHub source code, either from (a) in-repo MarkDown via relative paths or (b) by using URLs, currently a line number can be used to indicate a particular location in a source file. For example myDir/myFile.cs#L23.

This is brittle because in many languages such as C# code moves around a lot and the line number must be continually tracked and updated.

Also you normally really want to link to a code definition rather than a line number. (And, ideally in the future, have tooling in your IDE etc that can detect broken links because a code symbol has been removed/renamed.)

For these reasons, I would like to request support for linking to code symbols in a file such that GitHub looks at the file to determine the location of the symbol and lands there. Use of the URL fragment "#Symbol" as given in the discussion title could be a way to do this.

[yjp20]

For anyone that stumbles upon this, the best solution I've found is to use a text fragment link to the raw file:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openai/openai-node/master/src/error.ts#:~:text=class-,APIConnectionError

unfortunately the same text fragment technique doesn't work on the rich github UI, because github clears the hash

https://github.com/openai/openai-node/blob/master/src/error.ts#:~:text=class-,APIConnectionError