rust-lang / rust-lang/rust-analyzer
Renaming module that is `#[path = "..."]` overwritten does not automagically fix up the path
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Description
#[path = "bar.rs"]
mod foo;
Renaming the foo file only fixed up the mod name, not the path
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Reproduce the example with a Rust module declared using #[path = "bar.rs"] and rename the foo file. Trace rust-analyzer's rename handling for module declarations and path attributes, then verify that renaming the file updates both the module name and the explicit path.
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- rust
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- developer-experience
- Issue type
- Bug
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