Bug 492076

Created attachment 172874 [details]
screenshot of the issue

Incidentally, it might be useful if we had a lsp-plugin component for reporting issues. Maybe a Bugzilla admin could add one?

SUMMARY

If you hover over a String type in Kate, you get broken syntax highlighting in the output. (Same for most other types with extensive documentation.)

Have a look at https://doc.rust-lang.org/1.80.1/src/alloc/string.rs.html to see the raw documentation that is supposed to be shown.  The portions of the documentation that are code are clearly delineated in the source by backticks - this is a Markdown variant.

I'm not sure if it's possible to debug language server responses within Kate, but my reading of the spec is that responses to "hover information" requests are supposed to be Markdown documents, so my guess is that Kate is receiving something more-or-less exactly like what is shown in the raw Rust language documentation.

This means that Kate must be failing to parse the Markdown correctly since it's applying syntax highlighting to the wrong elements.

rust-analyzer 2024-08-19 (v0.3.2078)

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Hover over the word "String" (representing a Rust std String) in a document with the rust-analyzer server enabled for the LSP plugin

OBSERVED RESULT

See summary.

Operating System: Arch Linux 
KDE Plasma Version: 6.1.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.5.0
Qt Version: 6.7.2
Kernel Version: 6.10.5-arch1-1 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland