Description
I often try to do searches on rustdoc as foo bar
rather than foo::bar
, since it's easier to type and to me it feels more natural, especially in situations where the path isn't exact (e.g. see example 2 below).
Unfortunately, this pretty much never works, and it would be nice if it did. Concrete examples:
-
I'd like it if searching
vec truncate
brought up links to std::vec::Vec::trunctate and such, the way searchingvec::truncate
does. -
I'd like it if
arch mm_cvt
brought up the list of_mm_cvt
functions in core::arch, as searchingarch::mm_cvt
does(Note that in this case, the
::
path isn't really actually a thing that appears anywhere in the results, which is part of why I think spaces for this can be more natural) -
Ideally when spaces are used, the order wouldn't be important. e.g.
mm_cvt x86_64
would work even thoughmm_cvt::x86_64
doesn't — it would ideally something like this.That said, this might be better addressed later, I can't really make heads or tales of most of what the code is doing, so I don't know how big of a deal it is.
I think this is a matter of replacing some of the use of "::"
in this file, but I'm not completely sure all the changes that are needed.