rust-lang / rust-lang/rust-mode
Colored error messages
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enhancement
- Dominant language
- Emacs Lisp
- Stars
- 1.3k
- Forks
- 198
- PR merge metrics
- No merged PRs in 30d
Description
Emacs should display error messages using the same colors emitted by the compiler.
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Research direction
The issue names no files, tests, or entry points. Start by locating rust-mode's compiler error display path and checking how compiler output is parsed; compare that with existing error-display tests, if present. Done means compiler-emitted error colors are preserved when shown in Emacs.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- emacs, emacs-lisp
- Domain
- tooling
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100