Support workspace symbols request

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Quiet
Tech stack
typescript
Domain
devtools

Research direction

Start with the linked Language Server Protocol workspace symbol specification and inspect the repository for its existing request-handling entry points. Define done as accepting workspace symbol requests and returning matching real symbol locations across the project, with behavior aligned to the specification.

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Description

enhancement

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Workspace symbols can be a very useful way to efficiently do a wide search in a project as that search only matches real symbol locations compared to a text search which matches comments, strings, etc.

Describe the solution you'd like
Support workspace symbol requests

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