/**
 * Shared utilities for the Swift source-bridging tools.
 *
 * Position-finding via local regex pre-scan is the load-bearing trick: we
 * locate the symbol's declaration in a candidate file with a quick regex
 * before sending its position to SourceKit-LSP. This avoids LSP's
 * comparatively slow workspace symbol search.
 */
export interface SymbolPosition {
    line: number;
    character: number;
    matchedText: string;
}
/**
 * Find the first declaration of `symbolName` in the file.
 *
 * Looks for the symbol after one of Swift's declaration keywords
 * (`class`, `struct`, `enum`, `protocol`, `func`, `var`, `let`,
 * `actor`, `extension`). Falls back to the first standalone-word
 * occurrence so we still surface a position when the name is referenced
 * but not declared in the file (e.g. an extension method on a type
 * declared elsewhere).
 *
 * Returns 0-based positions matching LSP's convention.
 */
export declare function findSymbolDeclaration(filePath: string, symbolName: string): SymbolPosition | null;
export declare function escapeRegex(s: string): string;
/** Extract a few lines of context around `line` for snippet display. */
export declare function snippetAt(filePath: string, line: number, padding?: number): string;