Show local rustdoc manuals
It would be useful to be able to view Rust documentation in Devhelp, alongside other development documentation.
That would probably mean finding manuals in /usr/share/doc/rust/html
and using the search-index*.js
file to provide search functionality and a basic symbol list.
This would be fine for the Rust manual itself (standard libraries), but I suspect it would break down a bit when looking at the docs for other cargo crates, since each project uses different versions of the crates they depend on. Devhelp might need to become aware of that and only show documentation from your current project’s cargo environment. (Or just not show documentation for non-standard/non-system-installed crates.)
If this idea doesn’t seem like a good fit for Devhelp, or you have a different plan for making Rust documentation available in a handy searchable UI that isn’t just Yet Another Browser Tab, then please go ahead and close this! In that case it would be good to have a definitive statement that Devhelp is not going to move in that direction.