Add ability to search by type signature on the docs

[steveklabnik]

Issue by reem
Thursday Mar 13, 2014 at 16:49 GMT

For earlier discussion, see rust-lang/rust#12866

This issue was labelled with: A-an-interesting-project, A-rustdoc, E-hard in the Rust repository

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One of hoogle's most useful features is the ability to search by type signatures. It makes finding functions whose behavior you know but whose names you don't know much easier.

We should add this ability to the search feature in the rust docs.

[tomjakubowski]

Dupe of #658

[steveklabnik]

Yeah nice catch thanks :/