rust-lang / rust-lang/rust-analyzer
Ability to split find usages result based on usage in pattern and expression
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Description
Using a struct or enum variant in a pattern has very different meaning from in an expression. In expression its a construction, but in pattern its an inspection. I almost always know whether I look for construction or inspection, so I think either grouping the results based on this categories or adding more specific commands for querying one of them would work.
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 existing find-usages entry point and determine how usages distinguish patterns from expressions. Compare the two proposed outcomes: grouping results by construction versus inspection, or adding commands that query one category. Done means users can reliably inspect either category separately.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- rust
- Domain
- devtools
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100