rust-lang / rust-lang/rust-analyzer
Feature request: Suggest imports of renamed items
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Description
I've created a demo.
The struct itself is named Hello, but is accessed using the name Item. rustc provides a suggestion:
However, rust-analyzer does not have an equivalent suggestion.
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 with the linked demo and compare rustc's suggestion for the renamed Hello/Item access with rust-analyzer's current behavior. The work is done when rust-analyzer provides an equivalent import suggestion for this case.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- rust
- Domain
- developer-experience, tooling
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100