Converting multiline comments to single line breaks leading asterisks.
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- Rust
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Description
This:
/*
**BOLD**
*italic*
*/
becomes:
// BOLD**
// italic*
//
Contributor guide
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
Reproduce the transformation with the Rust snippet in the issue, then trace rustfmt's multiline-comment formatting path; the issue names no file or test to start from. Done means converting the block comment to line comments without losing or misplacing the leading asterisks in the comment text.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- rust
- Domain
- tooling
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 38/100