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x/tools/gopls: Symbols: use Levenshtein distance for ranking

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#74,793 opened on Jul 29, 2025

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Description

I just sought the symbol testincreemntalnope and got an empty result, even though TestIncrementalNope exists. It's 2025, I shouldn't have to spell correctly. Let's rank candidates by Levenshtein distance from the search term and include the closest n results.

See Starlark's spell.Nearest for an implementation we can use.

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Research direction
Review the Starlark spell.Nearest implementation and integrate it into gopls symbol ranking to include closest matches based on Levenshtein distance.
Tech stack
go
Domain
backend
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Feature
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3
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Clear
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Go
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75