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I want to pick this up, but I'm not familiar with the gopls codebase, so might take some time.

@KarthikNayak: The first place to look would be in https://github.com/golang/tools/blob/be0da057c5e3c2df569a2c25cd280149b7d7e7d0/internal/lsp/source/completion.go#L441. I would suggest making a separate function for autocompletion in comments and going from there. Feel free to reach out to me here or on the Gophers Slack if you have any questions on how to move forward with this.

@stamblerre Thanks for the heads up. I'll contact you if I need any clarifications!

@stamblerre I see that @clintjedwards has raised a PR for this, I'm glad he got to it before me!

@clintjedwards implemented this feature for exported variables, but this still needs to be added for exported functions, constants, and types if anyone is interested in working on this.

@stamblerre working on this

Shouldn't be too bad, the code just checks for VAR type and then throws out the rest. Should be a few lines change at most, not counting tests ;)

Let me know if you have questions @danishprakash

@clintjedwards implemented the remaining changes for this in https://golang.org/cl/230215/. Closing this as a result. Thanks!