On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 6:25 PM, Gokcehan Kara <[email protected]> wrote: > 1) Implement a type under cursor functionality
rustfind (https://github.com/dobkeratops/rustfind) does this and more, for crates that compile. > Some more general questions are; > > - How feasible is this project with the current state of the compiler? > Not very, for the general case. If you want autocompletion as you type, you currently need to have a fully-compilable crate. Otherwise, parsing or typechecking or something else will fail and you won't be able to get any results. rustc is currently very all-or-nothing. But, you can get useful information for completion out of an already-compiling crate, though I'm not sure how much better it would be than what etags already does. > - How difficult would it be for a newbie (to both rustc and compilers)? > Very, since it would require reworking most of the compiler ;) _______________________________________________ Rust-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/rust-dev
