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Rustdoc reduce search rank for deprecated items #98759
Description
When user search radix the non-const which is deprecated rank higher than the non-deprecated version.
Would be nice to reduce rank of deprecated items in search, it appears on the first result.
It would be better if the search result show that the item is deprecated in favor of something else, and that something else have a higher ranking.
@rustbot label A-rustdoc-search C-enhancement T-rustdoc
Reacted by Martin Habovštiak, Trevor Gross and Peter Jaszkowiak
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rustbot commentedon Jul 1, 2022
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pitaj commentedon Feb 3, 2023
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pitaj commentedon Feb 3, 2023
I'd like to move forward on this. Hopefully we can get an FCP started. The prime motivation for this is to improve search results when searching for numeric constants like
i32::MIN.Problem
Currently, when searching for
i32::MIN, the deprecated itemstd::i32::MINshows up beforei32::MINin the search results, and there is no indication thatstd::i32::MINis deprecated until you go to the page forstd::i32::MIN:And it's even worse if you search for just
MIN, where all of the deprecatedstd::<num>::MINitems come up above the constants on the number types:Resolution
i32::MAXshows up abovestd::i32::MAXandcore::i32::MAXIf just searching for
min, the deprecated results show up far below other things:one page later
And, as you can see, the "Deprecation planned" message shows up in the search results. The same is true for fully-deprecated items like
mem::uninitialized:For good measure, the radix search from the OP:
pitaj commentedon Feb 3, 2023
Another example from #107629 (comment):
Rollup merge of rust-lang#107629 - pitaj:rustdoc-search-deprecated, r…
Rollup merge of rust-lang#107629 - pitaj:rustdoc-search-deprecated, r…
jsha commentedon Mar 13, 2023
Fixed by #107629.