IntelliJ Rust Changelog #125

New Features

• Provide initial support for debugging with MSVC toolchain in CLion 2020.2. You can track current progress and restrictions here

• Enable intelligent highlighting inside macro call bodies when new macro expansion engine is used

• Add initial implementation of Move File refactoring. The refactoring currently supports moving a single file without submodules.

  

• Now Rust plugin is dynamically loadable on 2020.2. It allows you to install the plugin without restarting the IDE

• Add intentions to convert a method call to UFCS and vice versa (by @Kobzol )

  

• Add quick fixes to remove unused variable / parameter (by @Kobzol )

  

• Add the quick fix to convert an immutable reference to a mutable one (by @Kobzol )

  

• Update icons for Rust items. Now they are more similar to C/C++ icons. Also, fix visibility modifiers for some items in structure view

  Before	After

• Make Introduce variable refactoring available as an intention (by @Kobzol )

• Add or improve detection of the new compiler errors:

  • E0517 and E0552 (by @Stzx )
  • E0277 in some new cases (by @Kobzol )
  • E0015 and E0435 in case of array size expression (by @t-kameyama )

• Now highlighting of lint inspection annotations is associated with corresponding lint levels defined by lint check attributes like allow , warn , etc. (by @Stzx )

• Basic support for forbid attribute. Now messages from a forbidden lint are highlighted as errors in the editor (by @Stzx )

• Allow a user to change mutability of parameters in Extract Function dialog (by @Kobzol )

• Report type errors for references with different mutability even if a type is not fully known (by @Kobzol )

• Enable Convert match statement to if let intention for irrefutable patterns (by @Kobzol )

• Show unique editor tab names for main.rs , lib.rs and Cargo.toml (by @Kobzol )

• Improve text for Convert to type quick fix (by @Kobzol )

• Update Wrong type arguments number inspection (by @Kobzol )

• Replace Remove all type arguments quick fix with Remove redundant type arguments quick fix (by @Stzx )

Fixes

• Take into account namespaces when name shadowing occurs. For example, now use anyhow::anyhow doesn’t break name resolution

• Fix false positive about not allowed impl Trait in associated type binding (by @Kobzol )

• Fix false positive for Match must be exhaustive error (by @Mcat12 )

• Fix usage replacement in Extract Enum Variant refactoring (by @Kobzol )

• Support tuple struct fields in Make public quick fix (by @Kobzol )

• Make Self inside impl of enum to be resolved to both impl and enum items (by @fan-tom )

• Don’t trigger Main function not found inspection if the file has top-level errors (by @Kobzol )

• Fix Go to Declaration from associated type bindings on 2020.2

• Fix parentheses completion for Fn* traits (by @Kobzol )

• Liveness analysis takes into account destructured struct fields (by @Kobzol )

• Fix Join Lines action for doc comment lines (by @Stzx )

• Disable Promote Module to Directory and Downgrade Module to File refactorings for invalid files in the editor (by @Kobzol )

• Correctly handle symlinked Cargo projects (by @Jezza )

• Fix #[macro_export(local_inner_macros)] when used with the experimental macro expansion engine

• Fix macro expansion infinite progress on 2020.2

• Properly render types in annotations on 2020.2

• Properly escape text in a test output pane

• Get rid of options to disable the Test Tool window

• Fix some exceptions:

  • In Remove reference and Change return type quick fixes
  • When analysing file with an external linter
  • During code folding of invalid macro calls
  • On Find Usages in Macros 2.0
  • In structure view and usage tooltip
  • When formatting file with rustfmt on save

Internal Improvements

• Enable proofreading in commit messages

• Provide issue / PR navigation in git log

Full set of changes can be found here