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Doc: add documentation covering usage of the new --cfg flags
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# Usage

This section is intended for users who want to install Marker and run provided lints.

## Controlling Marker Lints
Once your crate is configured to run some lints, it quickly becomes important to control the lint levels within your
code. Marker provides the ability to use normal lint control attributes like `#[allow(...)]` `#[deny(...)]` and others
to control the behavior of marker lints.

### On nightly
Marker provides this functionality via the `#[register_tool()]` attribute currently available in
[nightly](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/66079). If your crate is compiled using nightly, then controlling
lints is as simple as placing `#![feature(register_tool)]` and `#![register_tool(marker)]` at the top of your crate
`lib.rs` or `mod.rs` file. You can then use all of the normal lint attributes you might usually use, on marker provided
lints, like `#[allow(marker::my_lint)]`.

### On Stable
If your project isn't on nightly, you can still use the `register_tool` attribute, you'll just need to add some extra
guards around it. Marker provides config arguments to rust during the lint passes, so that your linted code can
conditionally apply attributes only during the marker run.

Specifically marker passes `--cfg=marker` and a `--cfg=marker="my_crate"` flag for each lint crate. This means that you
can use `#[cfg_attr(marker, foo)]` to conditionally apply the `foo` attribute only during lint runs. This can be used
to leverage the fact that lints run using nightly, without requiring the linted crate to compile using nightly. To do
this, add a `#![cfg_attr(marker, feature(register_tool))]` and `#![cfg_attr(marker, register_tool(marker))]` attributes
to the top of your crate file, then you can apply lint level attributes like `#[cfg_attr(marker, allow(marker::foo))]`
to control your marker lints. Additionally, if there are attributes you only want active when marker is aware of
certain lint crates, you can conditionally apply your attribute with something like
`#[cfg_attr(marker = "my_crate", allow(marker::foo))]`.

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