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Rollup merge of rust-lang#101166 - GuillaumeGomez:error-index-mdbook, r=notriddle
Generate error index with mdbook instead of raw HTML pages
This is a follow-up of rust-lang#100922.
This comes from a remark from ```@estebank``` who said that the search was a nice thing on the previous version and that it wasn't possible anymore. An easy way to come around this limitation was to use `mdbook`, which is what I did here.
Now some explanations on the code. I'll explain how I developed this and why I reached this solution. First I did it very basically by simply setting the source directory and the output directory, generated a `SUMMARY.md` manually which listed all error codes and that was it. Two problems arose from this:
1. A lot of new HTML files were generated at the top level
2. An `index.html` file was generated at the top-level (the summary in short).
So for `1.`, it's not great to have too many files at the top-level as it could create file conflicts more easily. And for `2.`, this is actually a huge issue because <doc.rust-lang.org> generates an `index.html` file with a links to a few different resources, so it should never be overwritten. <s>Unfortunately, `mdbook` **always** generates an `index.html` file so the only solution I could see (except for sending them a contribution, I'll maybe do that later) was to temporaly move a potentially existing `index.html` file and then puts it back once done. For this last part, to ensure that we don't return *before* it has been put back, I wrapped the `mdbook` generation code inside `render_html_inner` which is called from `render_html` which in turn handle the "save" of `index.html`.</s>
EDIT: `mdbook` completely deletes ALL the content in the target directory so I instead generate into a sub directory and then I move the files to the real target directory.
To keep compatibility with the old version, I also put the `<script>` ```@notriddle``` nicely provided in the previous PR only into the `error-index.html` file to prevent unneeded repetition. I didn't use `mdbook` `additional-js` option because the JS is included at the end of all HTML files, which we don't want for two reasons:
1. It's slow.
2. We only want it to be run in `error-index.html` (even if we also ensure in the JS itself too!).
<s>Now the last part: why we generate the summary twice. We actually generate it once to tell `mdbook` what the book will look like and a second time because a create a new chapter content which will actually list all the error codes (with the updated paths).</s>
EDIT: I removed the need for two summaries.
You can test it [here](https://rustdoc.crud.net/imperio/error-index-mdbook/error-index.html).
r? ```@notriddle```
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