Is there a way to make rust.analyzer to use type aliases

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#1

I have started using rust-analyzer recently which does a great job showing the inferred types but there are times when I would rather see an alias for the type

For example; I am using nalgebra-glm which defines an alias for Vec2,

pub type Vec2 = TVec2<f32>;

which itself uses several levels of aliasing to finally declare it as a Matrix

When I create a Vec2 rust-analyzer expands the full type to

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which is hard to parse when reading the code. Is there some way to change this behavior so it would display Vec2 instead of Matrix<.....>

#2

It looks like this is not possible yet. There is an open feature request here:

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#3

You can configure rust-analyzer.inlayHints.maxLength to at least have the hints be shortened, though.

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#4

Thanks for the link. It does a good job of highlighting the complications around the feature