rustdoc: Allow listing all items of a kind when searching for "<kind>:"
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A-rustdoc-search
C-feature-request
T-rustdoc
T-rustdoc-frontend
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- Rust
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Description
For instance searching for macro: should list all macros in the crate.
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Research direction
Start by locating rustdoc's search implementation and existing tests for <kind>: queries. Verify the current behavior for macro: and related item kinds, then make the search return all matching items in the crate; done means the query lists every macro without narrowing to a specific name.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- rust
- Domain
- documentation, search
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100