rust-analyzer/docs/book/README.md
Wilfred Hughes deda58e8f1 manual: Convert to mdbook
Split manual.adoc into markdown files, one for each chapter.

For the parts of the manual that are generated from source code doc
comments, update the comments to use markdown syntax and update the
code generators to write to `generated.md` files.

For the weekly release, stop copying the .adoc files to the
`rust-analyzer/rust-analyzer.github.io` at release time. Instead,
we'll sync the manual hourly from this repository.

See https://github.com/rust-analyzer/rust-analyzer.github.io/pull/226
for the sync. This PR should be merged first, and that PR needs to be
merged before the next weekly release.

This change is based on #15795, but rebased and updated. I've also
manually checked each page for markdown syntax issues and fixed any I
encountered.

Co-authored-by: Lukas Wirth <lukastw97@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Josh Rotenberg <joshrotenberg@gmail.com>
2025-01-24 13:23:22 -08:00

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rust-analyzer documentation

The rust analyzer manual uses mdbook.

Quick start

To run the documentation site locally:

cargo install mdbook
cd docs/book
mdbook serve
# make changes to documentation files in doc/book/src
# ...

mdbook will rebuild the documentation as changes are made.

Making updates

While not required, installing the mdbook binary can be helfpul in order to see the changes. Start with the mdbook User Guide to familiarize yourself with the tool.

Generated documentation

Four sections are generated dynamically: assists, configuration, diagnostics and features. Their content is found in the generated.md files of the respective book section, for example src/configuration_generated.md, and are included in the book via mdbook's include functionality. Generated files can be rebuilt by running the various test cases that generate them, or by simply running all of the rust-analyzer tests with cargo test.