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What does this PR try to resolve?

The wording for our errors was indirect and things weren't as clear without more context.

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Example of rustc's versions of these errors:

1

error: unclosed frontmatter
  --> $DIR/frontmatter-whitespace-2.rs:1:1
   |
LL | / ---cargo
...  |
LL | |
   | |_^
   |
note: frontmatter opening here was not closed
  --> $DIR/frontmatter-whitespace-2.rs:1:1
   |
LL | ---cargo
   | ^^^

2

error: extra characters after frontmatter close are not allowed
  --> $DIR/extra-after-end.rs:2:1
   |
LL | ---cargo
   | ^^^^^^^^

3

error: frontmatter close does not match the opening
  --> $DIR/mismatch-1.rs:1:1
   |
LL |   ---cargo
   |   ^--
   |   |
   |  _the opening here has 3 dashes...
   | |
LL | |
LL | | ----
   | |_---^
   |   |
   |   ...while the close has 4 dashes

For comparison, rustc's message is:

> error: unclosed frontmatter
>   --> $DIR/frontmatter-whitespace-2.rs:1:1
>    |
> LL | / ---cargo
> ...  |
> LL | |
>    | |_^
>    |
> note: frontmatter opening here was not closed
>   --> $DIR/frontmatter-whitespace-2.rs:1:1
>    |
> LL | ---cargo
>    | ^^^
For comparison, the rustc error is:

> error: extra characters after frontmatter close are not allowed
>   --> $DIR/extra-after-end.rs:2:1
>    |
> LL | ---cargo
>    | ^^^^^^^^
For comparison, rustc's message is:

> error: frontmatter close does not match the opening
>   --> $DIR/mismatch-1.rs:1:1
>    |
> LL |   ---cargo
>    |   ^--
>    |   |
>    |  _the opening here has 3 dashes...
>    | |
> LL | |
> LL | | ----
>    | |_---^
>    |   |
>    |   ...while the close has 4 dashes
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@ehuss ehuss enabled auto-merge September 16, 2025 17:05
@ehuss ehuss added this pull request to the merge queue Sep 16, 2025
Merged via the queue into rust-lang:master with commit 966f947 Sep 16, 2025
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@epage epage deleted the front-errors branch September 16, 2025 19:28
bors added a commit to rust-lang/rust that referenced this pull request Sep 17, 2025
Update cargo submodule

19 commits in 24bb93c388fb8c211a37986539f24a819dc669d3..966f94733bbc94ca51ff9f1e4c49ad250ebbdc50
2025-09-10 23:16:07 +0000 to 2025-09-16 17:24:45 +0000
- fix(frontmatter): Improve error quality (rust-lang/cargo#15972)
- fix: wrong variable name in documentation (rust-lang/cargo#15968)
- Add "Optimizing Build Performance" section to the Cargo book (rust-lang/cargo#15924)
- Remove extra apostrophe in environment-variables.md (rust-lang/cargo#15963)
- Clarify warning for using `features` or `default-features` in `patch` (rust-lang/cargo#15953)
- fix(frontmatter): Try alternative len code fences (rust-lang/cargo#15952)
- feat(cli): Allow completions for third-party subcommand names (rust-lang/cargo#15961)
- docs(index): Clarify what we mean by omitting features (rust-lang/cargo#15957)
- fix(future): Report all content as a single Report (rust-lang/cargo#15943)
- fix(complete): Show local crates/features over other members  (rust-lang/cargo#15956)
- docs(resolver): Describe the role of the lockfile  (rust-lang/cargo#15958)
- chore: Skip check-version-bump ci job in forks (rust-lang/cargo#15959)
- Eliminate the last three "did you mean" warning phrasings (rust-lang/cargo#15356)
- fix(info): Suggest a more universal `cargo tree` command (rust-lang/cargo#15954)
- feat(cli): Use ellipses when truncating progress (rust-lang/cargo#15955)
- feat(completer): Added completion for `--features` flag (rust-lang/cargo#15309)
- fix(publish): Switch the 'ctrl-c on wait' line to a help message (rust-lang/cargo#15942)
- docs: move docs building process to contributor guide (rust-lang/cargo#15854)
- fix(manifest): Show error source to users (rust-lang/cargo#15939)

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