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Supercharge your Rust experience in Neovim!
A heavily modified fork of rust-tools.nvim

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Note

Just works. No need to call setup!
No dependency on lspconfig.
Lazy initialization by design.

❔ Do I need rustaceanvim

If you are starting out with Rust, Neovim's built-in LSP client API (see :h lsp) or nvim-lspconfig.rust_analyzer is probably enough for you. It provides the lowest common denominator of LSP support. This plugin is for those who would like additional non-standard features that are specific to rust-analyzer.

📝 Prerequisites

Required

neovim >= 0.12
rust-analyzer

Note

For versions that are compatible with older Neovim versions, see previous major version bumps in the changelog.

Optional

dot from graphviz, for crate graphs.
cargo, required for Cargo projects.
A debug adapter (e.g. lldb or codelldb) and nvim-dap, required for debugging.
A tree-sitter parser for Rust (required for the :Rustc unpretty command). Can be installed using nvim-treesitter, which also provides highlights, etc.

📥 Installation

Using Neovim's built-in plugin manager

vim.pack.add {{
  src = 'https://github.com/mrcjkb/rustaceanvim',
  -- To avoid being surprised by breaking changes,
  -- I recommend you set a version range
  version = vim.version.range('^9')
}}

`rocks.nvim`

:Rocks install rustaceanvim

`lazy.nvim`

{
  'mrcjkb/rustaceanvim',
  -- To avoid being surprised by breaking changes,
  -- I recommend you set a version range
  version = '^9',
  -- This plugin implements proper lazy-loading (see :h lua-plugin-lazy).
  -- No need for lazy.nvim to lazy-load it.
  lazy = false,
}

Tip

It is suggested to pin to tagged releases if you would like to avoid breaking changes.

To manually generate documentation, use :helptags ALL.

Nix

For Nix users with flakes enabled, this project provides outputs in the form of a package and an overlay. It is also available in nixpkgs.

Look at the configuration information below to get started.

⚡ Quick Setup

This plugin automatically configures the rust-analyzer builtin LSP client and integrates with other Rust tools. See the Usage / Features section for more info.

Warning

Do not call the nvim-lspconfig.rust_analyzer setup or set up the LSP client for rust-analyzer manually, as doing so may cause conflicts.

This is a filetype plugin that works out of the box, so there is no need to call a setup function or configure anything to get this plugin working.

You will most likely want to add some keymaps. Most keymaps are only useful in rust files, so I suggest you define them in ~/.config/nvim/after/ftplugin/rust.lua¹

Example:

local bufnr = vim.api.nvim_get_current_buf()
vim.keymap.set(
  "n",
  "<leader>a",
  function()
    vim.cmd.RustLsp('codeAction') -- supports rust-analyzer's grouping
    -- or vim.lsp.buf.codeAction() if you don't want grouping.
  end,
  { silent = true, buffer = bufnr }
)
vim.keymap.set(
  "n",
  "K",  -- Override Neovim's built-in hover keymap with rustaceanvim's hover actions
  function()
    vim.cmd.RustLsp({'hover', 'actions'})
  end,
  { silent = true, buffer = bufnr }
)

Tip

For more LSP related keymaps, see the nvim-lspconfig suggestions.
If you want to share keymaps with nvim-lspconfig, you can also use the vim.g.rustaceanvim.server.on_attach function, or an LspAttach autocommand.
See the Advanced configuration section or :h rustaceanvim.config for more configuration options.

Important

Do not set vim.g.rustaceanvim in after/ftplugin/rust.lua, as the file is sourced after the plugin is initialized.

📚 Usage / Features

Debugging

debuggables opens a prompt to select from available targets.
debug searches for a target at the current cursor position.

:RustLsp[!] debuggables {args[]}?
:RustLsp[!] debug {args[]}?

vim.cmd.RustLsp('debug')
vim.cmd.RustLsp('debuggables')
-- or, to run the previous debuggable:
vim.cmd.RustLsp { 'debuggables', bang = true }
-- or, to override the executable's args:
vim.cmd.RustLsp {'debuggables', 'arg1', 'arg2' }

Calling the command with a bang ! will rerun the last debuggable.

Requires:

nvim-dap (Please read the plugin's documentation).
A debug adapter (e.g. lldb-dap or codelldb).

By default, this plugin will silently attempt to autoload nvim-dap configurations when the LSP client attaches. You can call them with require('dap').continue() or :DapContinue once they have been loaded. The feature can be disabled by setting vim.g.rustaceanvim.dap.autoload_configurations = false.

:RustLsp debuggables will only load debug configurations created by rust-analyzer.
require('dap').continue() will load all Rust debug configurations, including those specified in a .vscode/launch.json (see :h dap-launch.json).
Note that rustaceanvim may only be able to load DAP configurations when rust-analyzer has finished initializing (which may be after the client attaches, in large projects). This means that the DAP configurations may not be loaded immediately upon startup.

Runnables

runnables opens a prompt to select from available targets.
run searches for a target at the current cursor position.

:RustLsp[!] runnables {args[]}?
:RustLsp[!] run {args[]}?

vim.cmd.RustLsp('run')
vim.cmd.RustLsp('runnables')
-- or, to run the previous runnable:
vim.cmd.RustLsp { 'runnables', bang = true }
-- or, to override the executable's args:
vim.cmd.RustLsp {'runnables', 'arg1', 'arg2' }

Calling the command with a bang ! will rerun the last runnable.

Testables and failed test diagnostics

If you set the vim.g.rustaceanvim.tools.test_executor option to 'background', this plugin will run tests in the background, parse the results, and - if possible - display failed tests as diagnostics.

:RustLsp[!] testables {args[]}?

vim.cmd.RustLsp('testables')
-- or, to run the previous testables:
vim.cmd.RustLsp { 'testables', bang = true }
-- or, to override the executable's args:
vim.cmd.RustLsp {'testables', 'arg1', 'arg2' }

Calling the command with a bang ! will rerun the last testable.

Neotest integration

This plugin provides a neotest adapter, which you can add to neotest as follows:

require('neotest').setup {
    -- ...,
    adapters = {
      -- ...,
      require('rustaceanvim.neotest')
    },
}

Note: If you use rustaceanvim's neotest adapter, do not add neotest-rust.

Here is a comparison between rustaceanvim's adapter and neotest-rust:

	rustaceanvim	neotest-rust
Test discovery	rust-analyzer (LSP)	tree-sitter
Command construction	rust-analyzer (LSP)	tree-sitter
DAP strategy	Automatic DAP detection (reuses `debuggables`); overridable with `vim.g.rustaceanvim.dap`	Defaults to `codelldb`; manual configuration
Test runner	`cargo` or `cargo-nextest`, if detected	`cargo-nextest`

If you configure rustaceanvim to use neotest, the tools.test_executor will default to using neotest for testables and runnables that are tests.

Expand macros recursively

:RustLsp expandMacro {float?|horizontal?|vertical?}

vim.cmd.RustLsp('expandMacro')
vim.cmd.RustLsp({ 'expandMacro', 'float' })

The default is vertical when no argument is provided.

Rebuild proc macros

:RustLsp rebuildProcMacros

vim.cmd.RustLsp('rebuildProcMacros')

Move item up/down

:RustLsp moveItem {up|down}

vim.cmd.RustLsp { 'moveItem',  'up' }
vim.cmd.RustLsp { 'moveItem',  'down' }

Grouped code actions

Sometimes, rust-analyzer groups code actions by category, which is not supported by Neovim's built-in vim.lsp.buf.codeAction. This plugin provides a command with a UI that does:

:RustLsp codeAction

vim.cmd.RustLsp('codeAction')

If you set the option vim.g.rustaceanvim.tools.code_actions.ui_select_fallback to true (defaults to false), it will fall back to vim.ui.select if there are no grouped code actions.

Hover actions

Note: To activate hover actions, run the command twice. This will move you into the window, then press enter on the selection you want. Alternatively, you can set auto_focus to true in your config and you will automatically enter the hover actions window.

:RustLsp hover actions

vim.cmd.RustLsp { 'hover', 'actions' }

You can invoke a hover action by switching to the hover window and entering <CR> on the respective line, or with a keymap for the <Plug>RustHoverAction mapping, which accepts a <count> prefix as the (1-based) index of the hover action to invoke.

For example, if you set the following keymap:

vim.keymap.set('n', '<space>a', '<Plug>RustHoverAction')

you can invoke the third hover action with 3<space>a.

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