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How to handle tool-specific magic comments

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Description

rdoc currently removes shebangs and ruby magic comments from rendered documetantion.

But other tools like sorbet and rbs-inline provide their own comments like # typed: true or rbs_inline: enabled which aren't excluded. If I have a file like this:

# frozen_string_literal: true
# rbs_inline: enabled
# :markup: markdown

module Prism
  module Foo
    # ...
  end
end

Then for each file, you get one rbs_inline comment on the top-level namespace. I feel like either rdoc should

  • ignore any magic-style comment, regardless of if it is "official" or not
  • Not attach comments where there is whitespace before the top-level. I guess this is not feasable for backwards compat since rdoc itself makes heavy use of that style.

This can be worked around by inserting #-- before the magic comments but I don't think I should need to care about this at all.

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Research direction

The issue names no implementation file or test. Reproduce the example with RDoc, then trace the handling of shebangs and Ruby magic comments and compare it with tool-specific comments such as # typed: true and # rbs_inline: enabled. Done means those comments no longer appear as top-level documentation without breaking RDoc's existing magic-comment behavior.

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Assessment

Tech stack
ruby
Domain
documentation
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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