rust-lang / rust-lang/rust-analyzer
Improve project loadinrg error reporting
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C-enhancement
- Dominant language
- Rust
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Description
Currently the user has to look into the logs to figure out whats wrong, in VSCode the status bar hover message supports markdown though, so we can report a decently formatted error message there.
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 tracing how project-loading errors are currently logged and where the VSCode status bar hover message is assembled. Confirm the available markdown formatting and define the error details that should move from logs into that message; done means users can understand project-loading failures from the status bar without checking logs.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- rust, vscode
- Domain
- developer-experience
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100