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More documentation on conflicting fixes

See original GitHub issue

The developer documentation about rules (docs/developer-guide/working-with-rules.md) doesn’t contain enough information about rules. This is a followup to eslint/website#791.

The following questions should be answered:

Q: When do fixes conflict? A: “Conflicting fixes are fixes that would be applied to the same part of a string. So if two fixes want to modify characters 0 through 5, only one will be applied.”
Q: If fixes conflict which one will be applied? A: Fixes are not guaranteed to be applied. ESLint may choose to apply or not to apply any fix.
Q: Can the (rule) developer affect which one of the conflicting fixes is applied? A: No.

Are you willing to submit a pull request to implement this change? No. I’m not good at writing technical documentation.

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Created 3 years ago
Reactions:2
Comments:9 (7 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

2reactions

mdjermanoviccommented, Nov 2, 2020

Reopening, as it seems useful to clarify this in the docs.

1reaction

btmillscommented, Dec 29, 2021

The additional changes as currently described sound reasonable to me. Like others, I’d prefer to leave 2 as undefined behavior to avoid committing ourselves to a particular implementation.

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