Merge #9348

9348: output to log file if RA_LOG_FILE is defined in environment r=rezural a=rezural

This adds a check for RA_LOG_FILE, and logs to that if defined. It currently overrides flags.log_file. If this is undesirable, I will add a check.

Co-authored-by: rezural <[email protected]>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/docs/dev/README.md b/docs/dev/README.md
index e81f1e74c..a394b8501 100644
--- a/docs/dev/README.md
+++ b/docs/dev/README.md
@@ -131,7 +131,8 @@ Logging is done by both rust-analyzer and VS Code, so it might be tricky to figu
 
 Inside rust-analyzer, we use the standard `log` crate for logging, and `env_logger` for logging frontend.
 By default, log goes to stderr, but the stderr itself is processed by VS Code.
-`--log-file <PATH>` CLI argument allows logging to file.
+`--log-file <PATH>` CLI argument allows logging to file. 
+Setting the `RA_LOG_FILE=<PATH>` environment variable will also log to file, it will also override `--log-file`.
 
 To see stderr in the running VS Code instance, go to the "Output" tab of the panel and select `rust-analyzer`.
 This shows `eprintln!` as well.