@mvdan @robpike

This seems more annoying to fix than it's worth, since typing the actual name will work.

Makes sense. Maybe instead a line could be inserted in the help to document the behavior.

Alternatively, would you accept a pull request to fix it? I might look into sending one if I have time at some point.

@DeedleFake I think investigating if a simple fix exists would be useful. But if the fix adds a non-trivial amount of complexity, then I'd agree with Rob that it's probably not worth merging.

A CL would be useful either way though, for future reference.

Timed out in state WaitingForInfo. Closing.

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This bites me semi-regularly. I never type capital letters into my go doc query (why bother?) and so I get annoying failures every time the thing I'm looking for happens to be a keyword.

$ go doc sort.interface
doc: invalid identifier "interface"
exit status 1
$ go doc types.type
doc: invalid identifier "type"
exit status 1

Change https://golang.org/cl/205778 mentions this issue: cmd/doc: don't bother checking validity of symbols at top level

Reopening for the CL to close it.