code: Navigation and intelligence

IDE-grade navigation and compiler-authoritative completion: go to definition, element info, where-used, usage snippets, and code completion.

Related guides: read-navigate, ai-agents.

5 commands.

abapctl code definition

READ IDEMP

Navigate to definition of symbol at cursor position

Option	Required	Description
object (positional)	yes	object (object/name argument)
--line	yes	line number (1-based)
--col	yes	column number (1-based)
--connection	no	connection profile name
--end-col	no	end column (defaults to --col)
--implementation	no	find implementation instead of definition
--include	no	class include type
--adt-type	no	ADT object type (e.g. PROG/P, DDLS/DF, CLAS/OC). Use when a name is shared by multiple object types

abapctl code definition ZCL_FOO

abapctl code element-info

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Get type, docs, and component info for symbol at cursor position

Option	Required	Description
object (positional)	yes	object (object/name argument)
--line	yes	line number (1-based)
--col	yes	column number (1-based)
--connection	no	connection profile name
--include	no	class include type
--adt-type	no	ADT object type (e.g. PROG/P, DDLS/DF, CLAS/OC). Use when a name is shared by multiple object types

abapctl code element-info ZCL_FOO

abapctl code references

READ IDEMP

Find all references (where-used list) for an object or symbol

Option	Required	Description
object (positional)	yes	object (object/name argument)
--connection	no	connection profile name
--line	no	line number for position-specific lookup
--col	no	column number for position-specific lookup
--include	no	class include type
--adt-type	no	ADT object type (e.g. PROG/P, DDLS/DF, CLAS/OC). Use when a name is shared by multiple object types

abapctl code references ZCL_FOO

abapctl code snippets

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Show code context at each reference site

Option	Required	Description
object (positional)	yes	object (object/name argument)
--connection	no	connection profile name
--line	no	line number for position-specific lookup
--col	no	column number for position-specific lookup
--include	no	class include type
--adt-type	no	ADT object type (e.g. PROG/P, DDLS/DF, CLAS/OC). Use when a name is shared by multiple object types

abapctl code snippets ZCL_FOO

abapctl code complete

READ IDEMP

Get valid completions at cursor position

Option	Required	Description
object (positional)	yes	object (object/name argument)
--line	yes	line number (1-based)
--col	yes	column number (1-based)
--connection	no	connection profile name
--include	no	class include type
--source	no	use a local file as the source buffer instead of fetching from SAP
--prefix	no	splice this text at the cursor before querying (server filters by it)
--kind	no	filter results to a specific kind
--max	no	cap result count
--adt-type	no	ADT object type (e.g. PROG/P, DDLS/DF, CLAS/OC). Use when a name is shared by multiple object types

abapctl code complete ZCL_FOO --source ./ZCL_FOO.clas.abap