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rustdoc: dedup search form HTML
This change constructs the search form HTML using JavaScript, instead of plain HTML. It uses a custom element because
- the [parser]'s insert algorithm runs the connected callback synchronously, so we won't get layout jank
- it requires very little HTML, so it's a real win in size
[parser]: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/parsing.html#create-an-element-for-the-token
This shrinks the standard library by about 60MiB, by my test.
There should be no visible changes. Just use less disk space.
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This change constructs the search form HTML using JavaScript, instead of plain HTML. It uses a custom element because
- the [parser]'s insert algorithm runs the connected callback synchronously, so we won't get layout jank
- it requires very little HTML, so it's a real win in size
[parser]: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/parsing.html#create-an-element-for-the-token
This shrinks the standard library by about 60MiB, by my test.
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This needs to start downloading the descriptions after aliases
have been added to the result set.
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rustdoc-search: single result for items with multiple paths
Part of #15723
Preview: https://notriddle.com/rustdoc-html-demo-9/reexport-dup/std/index.html?search=hashmap
This change uses the same "exact" paths as trait implementors and type alias inlining to track items with multiple reachable paths. This way, if you search for `vec`, you get only the `std` exports of it, and not the one from `alloc`.
It still includes all the items in the search index so that you can search for them by all available paths. For example, try `core::option` and `std::option`, and notice that the results page doesn't show duplicates, but still shows all the items in their respective crates.
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Fix copy path button
Currently, on all nightly docs, clicking on the "copy path" button triggers a JS error. It's because changes in https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/123706 forgot to update the JS (it contained an image before but not anymore).
I had to make some small changes in the CSS to fix the display when the button was clicked as well.
r? ``@notriddle``
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Support type '/' to search
Related topic on IRLO: https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/rustdoc-use-key-to-search-instead-of-s/20559
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This change uses the same "exact" paths as trait implementors
and type alias inlining to track items with multiple
reachable paths. This way, if you search for `vec`, you get
only the `std` exports of it, and not the one from `alloc`.
It still includes all the items in the search index so that
you can search for them by all available paths. For example,
try `core::option` and `std::option`, and notice that the
results page doesn't show duplicates, but still shows all
the items in their respective crates.
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This adds a bit more data than "pure sharding" by
including information about which items have no description
at all. This way, it can sort the results, then truncate,
then finally download the description.
With the "e" bitmap: 2380KiB
Without the "e" bitmap: 2364KiB
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The descriptions are, on almost all crates[^1], the majority
of the size of the search index, even though they aren't really
used for searching. This makes it relatively easy to separate
them into their own files.
This commit also bumps us to ES8. Out of the browsers we support,
all of them support async functions according to caniuse.
https://caniuse.com/async-functions
[^1]:
<https://microsoft.github.io/windows-docs-rs/>, a crate with
44MiB of pure names and no descriptions for them, is an outlier
and should not be counted.
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r=GuillaumeGomez
rustdoc-search: depth limit `T<U>` -> `U` unboxing
Profiler output:
https://notriddle.com/rustdoc-html-demo-9/search-unbox-limit/ (the only significant change is that one of the `rust` tests went from 378416ms to 16ms).
This is a performance enhancement aimed at a problem I found while using type-driven search on the Rust compiler. It is caused by [`Interner`], a trait with 41 associated types, many of which recurse back to `Self` again.
This caused search.js to struggle. It eventually terminates, after about 10 minutes of turning my PC into a space header, but it's doing `41!` unifications and that's too slow.
[`Interner`]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/nightly-rustc/rustc_middle/ty/trait.Interner.html
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This is implemented, in addition to the ML-style one,
because Rust does it. If we don't, we'll never hear the end of it.
This commit also refactors some duplicate parts of the parser
into a dedicated function.
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Initialize them before the search index is loaded.
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It's going to be a no-op on the empty list anyway
(we have plenty of test cases that return nothing)
so why send extra code?
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Option::map, for example, looks like this:
option<t>, (t -> u) -> option<u>
This syntax searches all of the HOFs in Rust: traits Fn, FnOnce,
and FnMut, and bare fn primitives.
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Profiler output:
https://notriddle.com/rustdoc-html-demo-9/search-unbox-limit/
This is a performance enhancement aimed at a problem I found while
using type-driven search on the Rust compiler. It is caused by
[`Interner`], a trait with 41 associated types, many of which
recurse back to `Self` again.
This caused search.js to struggle. It eventually terminates,
after about 10 minutes of turning my PC into a space header, but it's
doing `41!` unifications and that's too slow.
[`Interner`]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/nightly-rustc/rustc_middle/ty/trait.Interner.html
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rustdoc: Correctly handle long crate names on mobile
Fixes https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/120471.
It now renders like this:
r? `@notriddle`
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rustdoc: hide modals when resizing the sidebar
Follow-up for
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/119477#discussion_r1439085011
CC `@lukas-code`
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This takes advantage of more reuse opportunities.
Along with the empty object commit, they
bringing memory usage down about 20% over the original.
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Map is implemented as a pointer to a mutable object.
Rustdoc never mutates function signatures after constructing them,
but the JS engine doesn't know that.
To save a bunch of memory, use a single immutable map
for every decoded type object with no bindings or generics.
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Follow-up for
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/119477#discussion_r1439085011
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rustdoc: search for tuples and unit by type with `()`
This feature extends rustdoc to support the syntax that most users will naturally attempt to use to search for tuples. Part of https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/60485
Function signature searches already support tuples and unit. The explicit name `primitive:tuple` and `primitive:unit` can be used to match a tuple or unit, while `()` will match either one. It also follows the direction set by the actual language for parens as a group, so `(u8,)` will only match a tuple, while `(u8)` will match a plain, unwrapped byte—thanks to loose search semantics, it will also match the tuple.
## Preview
* [`option<t>, option<u> -> (t, u)`](<https://notriddle.com/rustdoc-html-demo-5/tuple-unit/std/index.html?search=option%3Ct%3E%2C option%3Cu%3E -%3E (t%2C u)>)
* [`[t] -> (t,)`](<https://notriddle.com/rustdoc-html-demo-5/tuple-unit/std/index.html?search=[t] -%3E (t%2C)>)
* [`(ipaddr,) -> socketaddr`](<https://notriddle.com/rustdoc-html-demo-5/tuple-unit/std/index.html?search=(ipaddr%2C) -%3E socketaddr>)
## Motivation
When type-based search was first landed, it was directly [described as incomplete][a comment].
[a comment]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/23289#issuecomment-79437386
Filling out the missing functionality is going to mean adding support for more of Rust's [type expression] syntax, such as tuples (in this PR), references, raw pointers, function pointers, and closures.
[type expression]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/reference/types.html#type-expressions
There does seem to be demand for this sort of thing, such as [this Discord message](https://discord.com/channels/442252698964721669/443150878111694848/1042145740065099796) expressing regret at rustdoc not supporting tuples in search queries.
## Reference description (from the Rustdoc book)
<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Shorthand</th>
<th>Explicit names</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr><td colspan="2">Before this PR</td></tr>
<tr>
<td><code>[]</code></td>
<td><code>primitive:slice</code> and/or <code>primitive:array</code></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>[T]</code></td>
<td><code>primitive:slice<T></code> and/or <code>primitive:array<T></code></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>!</code></td>
<td><code>primitive:never</code></td>
</tr>
<tr><td colspan="2">After this PR</td></tr>
<tr>
<td><code>()</code></td>
<td><code>primitive:unit</code> and/or <code>primitive:tuple</code></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>(T)</code></td>
<td><code>T</code></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>(T,)</code></td>
<td><code>primitive:tuple<T></code></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
A single type expression wrapped in parens is the same as that type expression, since parens act as the grouping operator. If they're empty, though, they will match both `unit` and `tuple`, and if there's more than one type (or a trailing or leading comma) it is the same as `primitive:tuple<...>`.
However, since items can be left out of the query, `(T)` will still return results for types that match tuples, even though it also matches the type on its own. That is, `(u32)` matches `(u32,)` for the exact same reason that it also matches `Result<u32, Error>`.
## Future direction
The [type expression grammar](https://doc.rust-lang.org/reference/types.html#type-expressions) from the Reference is given below:
<pre><code>Syntax
Type :
TypeNoBounds
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| <a href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/reference/types/trait-object.html">TraitObjectType</a>
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TypeNoBounds :
<a href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/reference/types.html#parenthesized-types">ParenthesizedType</a>
| <a href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/reference/types/impl-trait.html">ImplTraitTypeOneBound</a>
| <a href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/reference/types/trait-object.html">TraitObjectTypeOneBound</a>
| <a href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/reference/paths.html#paths-in-types">TypePath</a>
| <a href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/reference/types/tuple.html#tuple-types">TupleType</a>
| <a href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/reference/types/never.html">NeverType</a>
| <a href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/reference/types/pointer.html#raw-pointers-const-and-mut">RawPointerType</a>
| <a href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/reference/types/pointer.html#shared-references-">ReferenceType</a>
| <a href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/reference/types/array.html">ArrayType</a>
| <a href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/reference/types/slice.html">SliceType</a>
| <a href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/reference/types/inferred.html">InferredType</a>
| <a href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/reference/paths.html#qualified-paths">QualifiedPathInType</a>
| <a href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/reference/types/function-pointer.html">BareFunctionType</a>
| <a href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/reference/macros.html#macro-invocation">MacroInvocation</a>
</code></pre>
ImplTraitType and TraitObjectType (and ImplTraitTypeOneBound and TraitObjectTypeOneBound) are not yet implemented. They would mostly desugar to `trait:`, similarly to how `!` desugars to `primitive:never`.
ParenthesizedType and TuplePath are added in this PR.
TypePath is already implemented (except const generics, which is not planned, and function-like trait syntax, which is planned as part of closure support).
NeverType is already implemented.
RawPointerType and ReferenceType require parsing and fixes to the search index to store this information, but otherwise their behavior seems simple enough. Just like tuples and slices, `&T` would be equivalent to `primitive:reference<T>`, `&mut T` would be equivalent to `primitive:reference<keyword:mut, T>`, `*T` would be equivalent to `primitive:pointer<T>`, `*mut T` would be equivalent to `primitive:pointer<keyword:mut, T>`, and `*const T` would be equivalent to `primitive:pointer<keyword:const, T>`. Lifetime generics support is not planned, because lifetime subtyping seems too complicated.
ArrayType is subsumed by SliceType right now. Implementing const generics is not planned, because it seems like it would require a lot of implementation complexity for not much gain.
InferredType isn't really covered right now. Its semantics in a search context are not obvious.
QualifiedPathInType is not implemented, and it is not planned. I would need a use case to justify it, and act as a guide for what the exact semantics should be.
BareFunctionType is not implemented. Along with function-like trait syntax, which is formally considered a TypePath, it's the biggest missing feature to be able to do structured searches over generic APIs like `Option`.
MacroInvocation is not parsed (macro names are, but they don't mean the same thing here at all). Those are gone by the time Rustdoc sees the source code.
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rustdoc-search: tighter encoding for f index
Depends on https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/119457
Two optimizations for the function signature search:
* Instead of using JSON arrays, like `[1,20]`, it uses VLQ
hex with no commas, like `[aAd]`.
* This also adds backrefs: if you have more than one function
with exactly the same signature, it'll not only store it once,
it'll *decode* it once, and store in the typeIdMap only once.
Based partially on discussions on zulip:
https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/266220-t-rustdoc/topic/search.20index.20size
Performance
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https://notriddle.com/rustdoc-html-demo-8/compression-perf-v2/index.html
### memory/time profiler output (for more details, consult the above link)
<table>
<thead><tr><th>benchmark<th>before<th>after</tr></thead>
<tbody>
<tr><th>arti<td>
```
user: 002.789 s
sys: 000.390 s
wall: 002.096 s
child_RSS_high: 440796 KiB
group_mem_high: 414924 KiB
```
</td><td>
```
user: 002.295 s
sys: 000.278 s
wall: 001.738 s
child_RSS_high: 314588 KiB
group_mem_high: 285220 KiB
```
</td></tr><tr><th>cortex-m<td>
```
user: 000.127 s
sys: 000.030 s
wall: 000.134 s
child_RSS_high: 60264 KiB
group_mem_high: 23824 KiB
```
</td><td>
```
user: 000.136 s
sys: 000.038 s
wall: 000.137 s
child_RSS_high: 59204 KiB
group_mem_high: 22712 KiB
```
</td></tr><tr><th>sqlx<td>
```
user: 000.887 s
sys: 000.118 s
wall: 000.592 s
child_RSS_high: 190408 KiB
group_mem_high: 157804 KiB
```
</td><td>
```
user: 000.798 s
sys: 000.101 s
wall: 000.525 s
child_RSS_high: 159292 KiB
group_mem_high: 126292 KiB
```
</td></tr><tr><th>stm32f4<td>
```
user: 013.884 s
sys: 005.399 s
wall: 013.149 s
child_RSS_high: 1942244 KiB
group_mem_high: 1954916 KiB
```
</td><td>
```
user: 006.128 s
sys: 003.297 s
wall: 007.994 s
child_RSS_high: 1038108 KiB
group_mem_high: 1023900 KiB
```
</td></tr><tr><th>ripgrep<td>
```
user: 000.441 s
sys: 000.063 s
wall: 000.264 s
child_RSS_high: 109180 KiB
group_mem_high: 74272 KiB
```
</td><td>
```
user: 000.408 s
sys: 000.044 s
wall: 000.238 s
child_RSS_high: 101488 KiB
group_mem_high: 66000 KiB
```
</td></tr></tbody></table>
Size change
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standard library without gzip:
```console
$ du -bs search-index-old.js search-index-new.js
4976370 search-index-old.js
4404391 search-index-new.js
```
((4976370-4404391)/4404391)*100% = 12.9%
with gzip:
```console
$ du -hs search-index-old.js.gz search-index-new.js.gz
520K search-index-old.js.gz
504K search-index-new.js.gz
$ du -bs search-index-old.js.gz search-index-new.js.gz
522092 search-index-old.js.gz
507654 search-index-new.js.gz
```
((522092-507654)/507654)*100% = 2.8%
Benchmarks are similarly shrunk.
Without gzip:
```console
$ du -hs tmp/{arti,cortex-m,sqlx,stm32f4,ripgrep}/toolchain_{old,new}/doc/search-index.js
10555067 tmp/arti/toolchain_old/doc/search-index.js
8921236 tmp/arti/toolchain_new/doc/search-index.js
77018 tmp/cortex-m/toolchain_old/doc/search-index.js
66676 tmp/cortex-m/toolchain_new/doc/search-index.js
2876330 tmp/sqlx/toolchain_old/doc/search-index.js
2436812 tmp/sqlx/toolchain_new/doc/search-index.js
63632890 tmp/stm32f4/toolchain_old/doc/search-index.js
52337438 tmp/stm32f4/toolchain_new/doc/search-index.js
631150 tmp/ripgrep/toolchain_old/doc/search-index.js
541646 tmp/ripgrep/toolchain_new/doc/search-index.js
```
With gzip:
```console
$ du -bs tmp/{arti,cortex-m,sqlx,stm32f4,ripgrep}/toolchain_{old,new}/doc/search-index.js.gz
1618852 tmp/arti/toolchain_old/doc/search-index.js.gz
1582007 tmp/arti/toolchain_new/doc/search-index.js.gz
16109 tmp/cortex-m/toolchain_old/doc/search-index.js.gz
15831 tmp/cortex-m/toolchain_new/doc/search-index.js.gz
422257 tmp/sqlx/toolchain_old/doc/search-index.js.gz
411507 tmp/sqlx/toolchain_new/doc/search-index.js.gz
4454761 tmp/stm32f4/toolchain_old/doc/search-index.js.gz
4334924 tmp/stm32f4/toolchain_new/doc/search-index.js.gz
98312 tmp/ripgrep/toolchain_old/doc/search-index.js.gz
96864 tmp/ripgrep/toolchain_new/doc/search-index.js.gz
$ du -hs tmp/{arti,cortex-m,sqlx,stm32f4,ripgrep}/toolchain_{old,new}/doc/search-index.j
s.gz
1.6M tmp/arti/toolchain_old/doc/search-index.js.gz
1.6M tmp/arti/toolchain_new/doc/search-index.js.gz
24K tmp/cortex-m/toolchain_old/doc/search-index.js.gz
24K tmp/cortex-m/toolchain_new/doc/search-index.js.gz
424K tmp/sqlx/toolchain_old/doc/search-index.js.gz
412K tmp/sqlx/toolchain_new/doc/search-index.js.gz
4.3M tmp/stm32f4/toolchain_old/doc/search-index.js.gz
4.2M tmp/stm32f4/toolchain_new/doc/search-index.js.gz
108K tmp/ripgrep/toolchain_old/doc/search-index.js.gz
104K tmp/ripgrep/toolchain_new/doc/search-index.js.gz
```
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rustdoc: clean up source sidebar hide button
This is a redesign of the feature, with parts pulled from https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/119049 but with a button that looks more like a button and matches the one used on other sidebar pages.
Preview:
* http://notriddle.com/rustdoc-html-demo-8/source-sidebar-resize/src/std/lib.rs.html
* http://notriddle.com/rustdoc-html-demo-8/source-sidebar-resize/std/index.html
| | Before | After |
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| Closed |  | 
| Open |  | 
| Mobile Closed |  | 
| Mobile Open |  | 
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Two optimizations for the function signature search:
* Instead of using JSON arrays, like `[1,20]`, it uses VLQ
hex with no commas, like `[aAd]`.
* This also adds backrefs: if you have more than one function
with exactly the same signature, it'll not only store it once,
it'll *decode* it once, and store in the typeIdMap only once.
Size change
-----------
standard library
```console
$ du -bs search-index-old.js search-index-new.js
4976370 search-index-old.js
4404391 search-index-new.js
```
((4976370-4404391)/4404391)*100% = 12.9%
Benchmarks are similarly shrunk:
```console
$ du -hs tmp/{arti,cortex-m,sqlx,stm32f4,ripgrep}/toolchain_{old,new}/doc/search-index.js
10555067 tmp/arti/toolchain_old/doc/search-index.js
8921236 tmp/arti/toolchain_new/doc/search-index.js
77018 tmp/cortex-m/toolchain_old/doc/search-index.js
66676 tmp/cortex-m/toolchain_new/doc/search-index.js
2876330 tmp/sqlx/toolchain_old/doc/search-index.js
2436812 tmp/sqlx/toolchain_new/doc/search-index.js
63632890 tmp/stm32f4/toolchain_old/doc/search-index.js
52337438 tmp/stm32f4/toolchain_new/doc/search-index.js
631150 tmp/ripgrep/toolchain_old/doc/search-index.js
541646 tmp/ripgrep/toolchain_new/doc/search-index.js
```
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rustdoc-search: count path edits with separate edit limit
Avoids strange-looking results like this one, where the path component seems to be ignored:
Since the two are counted separately elsewhere, they should get their own limits, too. The biggest problem with combining them is that paths are loosely checked by not requiring every component to match, which means that if they are short and matched loosely, they can easily find "drunk typist" matches that make no sense, like this old result:
std::collections::btree_map::itermut matching slice::itermut
maxEditDistance = ("slice::itermut".length) / 3 = 14 / 3 = 4
editDistance("std", "slice") = 4
editDistance("itermut", "itermut") = 0
4 + 0 <= 4 PASS
Of course, `slice::itermut` should not match stuff from btreemap. `slice` should not match `std`.
The new result counts them separately:
maxPathEditDistance = "slice".length / 3 = 5 / 3 = 1
maxEditDistance = "itermut".length / 3 = 7 / 3 = 2
editDistance("std", "slice") = 4
4 <= 1 FAIL
Effectively, this makes path queries less "typo-resistant". It's not zero, but it means `vec` won't match the `v1` prelude.
This commit also adds substring matching to paths. It's stricter than the substring matching in the main part, but loose enough that what I expect to match does.
Queries without parent paths are unchanged.
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Since the two are counted separately elsewhere, they should get
their own limits, too. The biggest problem with combining them
is that paths are loosely checked by not requiring every component
to match, which means that if they are short and matched loosely,
they can easily find "drunk typist" matches that make no sense,
like this old result:
std::collections::btree_map::itermut matching slice::itermut
maxEditDistance = ("slice::itermut".length) / 3 = 14 / 3 = 4
editDistance("std", "slice") = 4
editDistance("itermut", "itermut") = 0
4 + 0 <= 4 PASS
Of course, `slice::itermut` should not match stuff from btreemap.
`slice` should not match `std`.
The new result counts them separately:
maxPathEditDistance = "slice".length / 3 = 5 / 3 = 1
maxEditDistance = "itermut".length / 3 = 7 / 3 = 2
editDistance("std", "slice") = 4
4 <= 1 FAIL
Effectively, this makes path queries less "typo-resistant".
It's not zero, but it means `vec` won't match the `v1` prelude.
Queries without parent paths are unchanged.
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Fixes #119219
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This is a redesign of the feature, with parts pulled from
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/119049
but with a button that looks more like a button and matches the
one used on other sidebar pages.
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rustdoc-search: remove parallel searchWords array
This might have made sense if the algorithm could use `searchWords` to skip having to look at `searchIndex`, but since it always does a substring check on both the stock word and the normalizedName, it doesn't seem to help performance anyway.
Profile: http://notriddle.com/rustdoc-html-demo-8/searchwords/index.html
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This might have made sense if the algorithm could use `searchWords`
to skip having to look at `searchIndex`, but since it always
does a substring check on both the stock word and the normalizedName,
it doesn't seem to help performance anyway.
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Simplify `src-script.js` code
Instead of keeping this value in the global scope and still use it in the function in case it wasn't used outside, let's just use it inside the function.
r? ``@notriddle``
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rustdoc: allow resizing the sidebar / hiding the top bar
Fixes #97306
Preview: http://notriddle.com/rustdoc-html-demo-4/sidebar-resize/std/index.html
## Summary
This feature adds:
1. A checkbox to the Settings popover to hide the persistent navigation bar (the sidebar on large viewports and the top bar on small ones).
2. On large viewports, it adds a resize handle to the persistent sidebar. Resizing it into nothing is equivalent to turning off the persistent navigation bar checkbox in Settings.
3. If the navigation bar is hidden, a toolbar button to the left of the search appears. Clicking it brings the navigation bar back.
## Motivation
While "mobile mode" is definitely a good default, it's not the only reason people have wanted to hide the sidebar:
* Some people use tiling window managers, and don't like rustdoc's current breakpoints. Changing the breakpoints might help with that, but there's no perfect solution, because there's a gap between "huge screen" and "smartphone" where reasonable people can disagree about whether it makes sense for the sidebar to be on-screen. https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/97306
* Some people ask for ways to reduce on-screen clutter because it makes it easier to focus. There's not a media query for that (and if there was, privacy-conscious users would turn it off). https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/59829
This feature is designed to avoid these problems. Resizing the sidebar especially helps, because it provides a way to hide the sidebar without adding a new top-level button (which would add clutter), and it provides a way to make rustdoc play nicer in complex, custom screen layouts.
## Guide and Reference-level explanation
On a desktop or laptop with a mouse, resize the sidebar by dragging its right edge.
On any browser, including mobile phones, the sticky top bar or side bar can be hidden from the Settings area (the button with the cog wheel, next to the search bar). When it's hidden, a convenient button will appear on the search bar's left.
## Drawbacks
This adds more JavaScript code to the render blocking area.
## Rationale and alternatives
The most obvious way to allow people to hide the sidebar would have been to let them "manually enter mobile mode." The upside is that it's a feature we already have. The downside is that it's actually really hard to come up with a terse description. Is it:
* A Setting that forces desktop viewers to always have the mobile-style top bar? If so, how do we label it? Should it be visible on mobile, and, if so, does it just not do anything?
* A persistent hide/show sidebar button, present on desktop, just like on mobile? That's clutter that I'd like to avoid.
## Prior art
* The new file browser in GitHub uses a similar divider with a mouse-over indicator
* mdBook and macOS Finder both allow you to resize the sidebar to nothing as a gesture to hide it
* https://www.nngroup.com/articles/drag-drop/
## Future possibilities
https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/266220-rustdoc/topic/Table.20of.20contents proposes a new, second sidebar (a table of contents). How should it fit in with this feature? Should it be resizeable? Hideable? Can it be accessed on mobile?
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