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GDScript outline

The Outline tab in the Inspector is a quick way to navigate a GDScript file without scrolling. It activates whenever a .gd file is the active workspace tab.

Forge with duck_battle.gd open in Monaco and the Inspector Outline tab on the right listing classes, methods, and constants

What it lists

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For the active script, the Outline shows:

  • Class name (from class_name X).
  • Extends (the base type).
  • Exported variables (anything tagged @export).
  • Member variables (other var declarations at file scope).
  • Methods (func ...).
  • Signals (signal ...).
  • Inner classes (nested class X: blocks).

Click any entry and Monaco scrolls to its definition.

Parsing

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The Outline is a regex pass over the script text. It runs on every save and on tab focus. There is no language server backing it.

That has consequences worth knowing:

  • Unusual syntax (multi-line declarations, heavy use of decorators) might be missed.
  • Type information is shown as written. The Outline doesn’t infer types or follow imports.
  • The Outline is descriptive, not navigational across files. To jump from one script to another, use the project explorer or quick-open (Ctrl+P).

A real LSP-backed outline (using gdscript-language-server) is on our roadmap. Until then, the regex approach is fast and good enough for the common cases.

What’s next

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