I like having the module file inside it's directory but code editors sort files alphabetically, which mixes mod.rs with other files and can't be found at a glance. | main.rs +---foo bar.rs mod.rs <-- far away from `/foo`, mixed with other files, weird zar.rs | main.rs +…

You can also rename foo/mod.rs to just foo.rs without having to do anything else special.

That's true, but It doesn't fix the problem that the module file and directory aren't next to one another. | foo.rs <-- far away from `/foo`, mixed with other files, weird | main.rs +---foo bar.rs zar.rs ...unless you sort alphabetically with no separation between files and di…

What an awesome insight. I spent lots of time looking for mod.rs, lib.rs and main.rs files in folders and have not realized such an easy solution could exist. The Sass compiler already allows to use underscore prefixes and just ignores them from the module name.

Using _mod.rs is an interesting idea. [image] DD-Diana: ...but I would need to write that for every import in a file. If ergonomics are the issue, one can define a (proc1-)macro that does the #[path = ...] for you: _mod!(bar); // expands to #[path = "bar/_mod.rs"] mod bar; What do you thi…

Yeah, custom sort order in the editor would be perfect. Unfortunately, VSCode doesn't support it yet.

This is sooort of off-topic, but I wonder: are you (or have you ever been grin) a Windows user? Having gotten used to intermixed files and directories (in macOS and Linux) the Windows collation scheme looks very wrong to me! (honestly, it kind of drives me crazy.)

Rename `mod.rs` to `_mod.rs`

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whatisaphone February 1, 2020, 7:29pm 5

This could also be handled at the IDE level. intellij-rust already sorts mod.rs first (in some windows), but not lib.rs or any others.

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Rename `mod.rs` to `_mod.rs`

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