rust-lang / rust-lang/rust-analyzer

Live rendered view of document with markdown

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Description

While working on documenting APIs of a rust crate, I found that it would be nice to have a live rendered view of current editing function / struct documentation in a separate window in my editor.

I think it is not so hard to implement, it would be similar to how we implement Show Syntax Tree and could be possible to reuse some hover code for that.

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Research direction

Start by inspecting the existing Show Syntax Tree implementation and the hover code mentioned in the issue. Determine how a live rendered view of the current function or struct documentation could appear in a separate editor window; done means the current Markdown documentation renders and updates while editing.

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Assessment

Tech stack
markdown, rust
Domain
developer-experience, documentation
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
30/100

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