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@@ -140,9 +140,10 @@ By default, log goes to stderr, but the stderr itself is processed by VS Code.
`--log-file <PATH>` CLI argument allows logging to file.
Setting the `RA_LOG_FILE=<PATH>` environment variable will also log to file, it will also override `--log-file`.
-To see stderr in the running VS Code instance, go to the "Output" tab of the panel and select `Rust Analyzer Client`.
+To see the server stderr output in the running VS Code instance, go to the "Output" tab of the panel
+and select `rust-analyzer Language Server`.
This shows `eprintln!` as well.
-Note that `stdout` is used for the actual protocol, so `println!` will break things.
+Note that `stdout` is used by LSP messages, so using `println!`—or anything that writes to `stdout`—will break rust-analyzer!
To log all communication between the server and the client, there are two choices:
@@ -153,9 +154,11 @@ To log all communication between the server and the client, there are two choice
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* You can log on the client side, by the `rust-analyzer: Toggle LSP Logs` command or enabling `"rust-analyzer.trace.server": "verbose"` workspace setting.
- These logs are shown in a separate tab in the output and could be used with LSP inspector.
+ These logs are shown in a separate tab named `rust-analyzer LSP Trace` in the output and could be used with LSP inspector.
Kudos to [@DJMcNab](https://github.com/DJMcNab) for setting this awesome infra up!
+Finally there are the logs of the VSCode extension itself which go into the `rust-analyzer Extension` output tab.
+
There are also several VS Code commands which might be of interest:
* `rust-analyzer: Status` shows some memory-usage statistics.