rust-lang / rust-lang/rust-analyzer
Fixit: turn into code reference
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Description
When the user types
/// `Frobnicator` fudges `Widget`'s
emit a weak warning/fixit to change that to
/// [`Frobnicator`] fudges [`Widget`]'s
when the names actually resolve.
Also, the same things for <> in URLs.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by locating rust-analyzer's handling of Rust doc-comment Markdown links, diagnostics, and fixits. Add coverage for resolved names in code spans and angle-bracket URLs, and confirm unresolved names are left unchanged while the requested weak fixit is offered.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- rust
- Domain
- documentation, tooling
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100