rust-lang / rust-lang/rust-analyzer

Allow overriding `docs.rs` URLs

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Description

This is a follow-up request to #12867.
Our organization has documentation hosted internally for our Rust workspace (built via cargo doc --workspace --document-private-items), so most users don't have docs built locally.
Right now, the autogenerated docs.rs URL is invalid for any of our internal crates, so it'd be very helpful to override the "base URL" or provide a format string to get to the docs for a crate.

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Research direction

Review issue #12867 and locate the rust-analyzer code that generates the autogenerated docs.rs URL. Check how a configurable base URL or format string could support internally hosted documentation while preserving the current default for public crates. Done means internal crate links resolve correctly and existing docs.rs links remain unchanged.

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Tech stack
rust
Domain
developer-experience
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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