rust-lang / rust-lang/rust-mode
New error format: all diagnostics are now highlighted as errors
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- Emacs Lisp
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Description
With the old error format, rust-mode was able to recognize errors, warnings and other info messages. The result was that compilation-mode could use different faces to distinguish between messages visually (compilation-error, compilation-warning, compilation-info).
This is now gone; all diagnostics are categorized as errors and highlighted as such (or rather, their position is). Since notes/help do no longer have individual file:line, it's not particularly serious, but unfortunate.
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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 rust-mode's diagnostic parsing and its integration with compilation-mode, focusing on how compilation-error, compilation-warning, and compilation-info are selected. Compare the current handling with the old error format; done means errors, warnings, and informational diagnostics are again categorized and highlighted distinctly.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- emacs, emacs-lisp, rust
- Domain
- devtools, tooling
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100