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Febbe wrote:

> > My plan was just to move the existing "ast view" treeview widget to a new 
> > menu, add a text bar above, and allow it to show multiple matches for a 
> > first prototype.
> 
> I'm wondering, what is the use case for showing the entire AST subtree (and 
> indeed, the protocol sending an entire `ASTNode`) for each match?
> 
> Might it be sufficient to just send a text file range for each match (much 
> like ordinary search results), and then if the user wants to see the AST for 
> a particular result they can select the range and invoke "Show AST"?

Interesting question, the tree of ASTNode's contain your search result and 
should also contain the source code range. For the most cases, just the source 
code range might be sufficient. But, you explicitly searched for a matching 
AST, so you might also view that AST result.
It was also an idea, to fullfill the last point of 
https://github.com/clangd/clangd/issues/1945#issue-2149756432 :

> * Optionally replace them with a sub AST

This would only work, if you can modify parts of the AST. Whether this is text 
based in the end might not matter, but in the intermediate state, e.g. while 
replacing static_cast's with a specific custom cast function, you need the 
subranges of each node.

https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/156090
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