[Dev Tools] Unclear status of cheatcode support

[coffeexcoin]

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Can you please provide clarification on the status of support for standard foundry cheatcodes?

The link to "See the Cheatcodes Reference for a complete overview of all the available cheatcodes." found at the bottom of https://foundry-book.zksync.io/forge/cheatcodes goes to https://foundry-book.zksync.io/cheatcodes/ which does not seem to exist.

There is an issue to implement vm.etch here which is closed matter-labs/foundry-zksync#176 but some people have mentioned that vm.etch does not seem to work properly for testing

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[Jrigada]

Hello @coffeexcoin! Sorry about the broken link. It points to a page that isn’t included in the Foundry zkSync book to avoid referencing cheatcodes that aren’t supported yet. We aim to incorporate cheatcodes as they become available in foundry-rs. The ones we currently don’t support have corresponding issues opened in the repository. I will fix the broken link to avoid any confusion in the future.

vm.etch should work as expected. We also use it to test additional features like the paymaster. If you encounter any errors while using it, feel free to open an issue!