I often find myself needing to point another developer to a specific line in a file. Usually, I would approach this by sending them a relative file path along with the line number. For example:

• relative file path src/utils.js
• line number 30

Equipped with this information they could:

• copy the file path their clipboard
• raise VSCode
• execute Go to file command (usually bound to ctrl+e)
• paste
• press Enter
• execute Go to Line/Column command (in my case it is bound to ctrl+g)
• type in the line number

Instead it would be convenient if the Go to file command input could accept a path with a symbol simplifying the above steps. Alternatively, to avoid overloading Go to file a new command my be introduced, possibly named Go to line in file.

The syntax for the enhanced file path could be filePath:lineNumber. In the context of the example above: src/utils.js:30.