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Show marker trait hints
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Description
It would be nice if marker traits were made more visible somehow. In the vscode context, I think maybe hints should come in the form of when you hover over a variable or a struct, the tooltip display shows its marker traits in the top right hand corner. Not sure how feasible this is, but it would help a lot.
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- 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 tracing the VS Code hover path for variables and structs, then identify where tooltip contents are assembled. Determine how marker traits can be represented in the tooltip's top-right area; done means marker traits are visibly included for relevant hover targets.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- rust
- Domain
- developer-experience
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100