This restriction made sense back when spaces separated function
parameters, but now that they separate path components, there's
no real ambiguity any more.
Additionally, the Rust language allows it.
The search sorting code already sorts by item type discriminant,
putting things with smaller discriminants first. There was
also a special case for sorting keywords and primitives earlier,
and this commit removes it by giving them lower discriminants.
The sorting code has another criteria where items with descriptions
appear earlier than items without, and that criteria has higher
priority than the item type. This shouldn't matter, though,
because primitives and keywords normally only appear in the
standard library, and it always gives them descriptions.
This whole thing changes it so that the JS and the UI both use
rustc's own path printing to handle the impl IDs. This results in
the format changing a little bit; full paths are used in spots
where they aren't strictly necessary, and the path sometimes uses
generics where the old system used the trait's own name, but it
shouldn't matter since the orphan rules will prevent it anyway.
Helps with #90929
This changes the search results, specifically, when there's more than
one impl with an associated item with the same name. For example,
the search queries `simd<i8> -> simd<i8>` and `simd<i64> -> simd<i64>`
don't link to the same function, but most of the functions have the
same names.
This change should probably be FCP-ed, especially since it adds a new
anchor link format for `main.js` to handle, so that URLs like
`struct.Vec.html#impl-AsMut<[T]>-for-Vec<T,+A>/method.as_mut` redirect
to `struct.Vec.html#method.as_mut-2`. It's a strange design, but there
are a few reasons for it:
* I'd like to avoid making the HTML bigger. Obviously, fixing this bug
is going to add at least a little more data to the search index, but
adding more HTML penalises viewers for the benefit of searchers.
* Breaking `struct.Vec.html#method.len` would also be a disappointment.
On the other hand:
* The path-style anchors might be less prone to link rot than the numbered
anchors. It's definitely less likely to have URLs that appear to "work",
but silently point at the wrong thing.
* This commit arranges the path-style anchor to redirect to the numbered
anchor. Nothing stops rustdoc from doing the opposite, making path-style
anchors the default and redirecting the "legacy" numbered ones.
When writing a type-driven search query in rustdoc, specifically one
with more than one query element, non-existent types become generic
parameters instead of auto-correcting (which is currently only done
for single-element queries) or giving no result. You can also force a
generic type parameter by writing `generic:T` (and can force it to not
use a generic type parameter with something like `struct:T` or whatever,
though if this happens it means the thing you're looking for doesn't
exist and will give you no results).
There is no syntax provided for specifying type constraints
for generic type parameters.
When you have a generic type parameter in a search query, it will only
match up with generic type parameters in the actual function, not
concrete types that match, not concrete types that implement a trait.
It also strictly matches based on when they're the same or different,
so `option<T>, option<U> -> option<U>` matches `Option::and`, but not
`Option::or`. Similarly, `option<T>, option<T> -> option<T>`` matches
`Option::or`, but not `Option::and`.
rustdoc-search: clean up type unification and "unboxing"
This PR redesigns parameter matching, return matching, and generics matching to use a single function that compares two lists of types.
It also makes the algorithms more consistent, so the "unboxing" behavior where `Vec<i32>` is considered a match for `i32` works inside generics, and not just at the top level.
This feature extends rustdoc to support the syntax that most users will
naturally attempt to use to search for diverging functions.
Part of #60485
It's already possible to do this search with `primitive:never`, but
that's not what the Rust language itself uses, so nobody will try it if
they aren't told or helped along.
This makes sense, since the search index has the information in it,
and it's more useful for function signature searches since a
function signature search's item type is, by definition, some type
of function (there's more than one, but not very many).
Based on https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/108200, for the same
rationale.
> This replaces the existing Levenshtein algorithm with the
> Damerau-Levenshtein algorithm. This means that "ab" to "ba" is one change
> (a transposition) instead of two (a deletion and insertion). More
> specifically, this is a restricted implementation, in that "ca" to "abc"
> cannot be performed as "ca" → "ac" → "abc", as there is an insertion in the
> middle of a transposition. I believe that errors like that are sufficiently
> rare that it's not worth taking into account.
Before this change, searching `prinltn!` listed `print!` first, followed
by `println!`. With this change, `println!` matches more closely.
