Feature request: alphabetic sorting of struct/enum fields
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Description
Whenever the order of a struct or enum would be completely irrelevant, I like to keep them in alphabetic order. However, this gets slightly annoying to maintain when adding new fields. Therefore I propose an optional automatic sorting attribute, think #[rustfmt::sort].
My first idea was to create a clippy lint for this, but having this done automatically would be the best.
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Research direction
The issue names no files, tests, or entry points. Start by locating rustfmt's handling of attributes and ordering for structs and enums; done would mean an optional sorting attribute works for cases where declaration order is irrelevant, with behavior and scope clarified.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- rust
- Domain
- tooling
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100