WIP: This doesn't currently work but I also don't think it's the right abstraction

crates/ra_analysis/src/imp.rs

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ use std::{
 };
 
 use relative_path::RelativePath;
-use ra_editor::{self, FileSymbol, LineIndex, find_node_at_offset, LocalEdit};
+use ra_editor::{self, FileSymbol, LineIndex, find_node_at_offset, LocalEdit, resolve_local_name};
 use ra_syntax::{
     TextUnit, TextRange, SmolStr, File, AstNode,
     SyntaxKind::*,
@@ -197,7 +197,21 @@ impl AnalysisImpl {
         let file = root.syntax(file_id);
         let syntax = file.syntax();
         if let Some(name_ref) = find_node_at_offset::<ast::NameRef>(syntax, offset) {
-            return self.index_resolve(name_ref, token);
+
+            // First try to resolve the symbol locally
+            if let Some(name) = resolve_local_name(&file, offset, name_ref) {
+                let vec: Vec<(FileId, FileSymbol)>::new();
+                vec.push((file_id, FileSymbol {
+                    name: name.text(),
+                    node_range: name.syntax().range(),
+                    kind : NAME
+                }));
+
+                return vec;
+            } else {
+                // If that fails try the index based approach.
+                return self.index_resolve(name_ref, token);
+            }
         }
         if let Some(name) = find_node_at_offset::<ast::Name>(syntax, offset) {
             if let Some(module) = name.syntax().parent().and_then(ast::Module::cast) {

crates/ra_editor/src/lib.rs

@@ -164,6 +164,14 @@ pub fn find_node_at_offset<'a, N: AstNode<'a>>(
         .next()
 }
 
+pub fn resolve_local_name<'a>(file: &'a File, offset: TextUnit, name_ref: ast::NameRef) -> Option<ast::Name<'a>> {
+    let fn_def = find_node_at_offset::<ast::FnDef>(file.syntax(), offset)?;
+    let scopes = scope::FnScopes::new(fn_def);
+
+    // TODO: This doesn't work because of scopes lifetime
+    scope::resolve_local_name(name_ref, &scopes)
+}
+
 #[cfg(test)]
 mod tests {
     use super::*;

crates/ra_editor/src/scope/mod.rs

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ mod fn_scope;
 mod mod_scope;
 
 pub use self::{
-    fn_scope::FnScopes,
+    fn_scope::{FnScopes, resolve_local_name},
     mod_scope::ModuleScope,
 };