Descent 0.5.3 released

[Ary Borenszweig]

Jacob Carlborg escribió:
> Ary Borenszweig wrote:
>> The Descent plugin for Eclipse provides an IDE for writing, launching 
>> and debugging code in D.
>>
>> Explanations on how to get it from within Eclipse are here:
>>
>> http://www.dsource.org/projects/descent
>>
>> (There's no need to do the nightly-build manual stuff for this. If you 
>> previously had a nightly-build, you must need to remove it before 
>> updating. Anyway, the current nightly-build reflects this release, so 
>> you can just do it manually if it turns out easier for you.)
>>
>> This release is just an accumulation of small features and bug fixes 
>> since the last (official, not nightly-build) version. But since I 
>> don't want everyone to think "Aww, nothing new, just a new number", 
>> this release also includes support for array "extension methods" in 
>> autocompletion. For this to work, the function that you want to use as 
>> an extension must be in the current module, or already imported (so 
>> for example you won't get methods from std.algorithm, tango.core.Array 
>> or tango.text.Util until you have an import for them in the module you 
>> are currently typing in).
>>
>> Here's a video that shows this functionality: 
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBj0wu9dbnA
>>
>> And a question: what would you like to see next in Descent?
>>
>> Any suggestion, critic or bug report is welcome. You can use:
>> - the forums: http://www.dsource.org/forums/viewforum.php?f=107
>> - trac: http://www.dsource.org/projects/descent/report?action=new
>> - irc: at freenode, #d.descent
>>
>> Enjoy!
> 
> First I have to say that you're doing a great job with descent. Here are 
> a few suggestions:
> 
> Remove "." as insertion of autocompletion. Yes I know that it's like 
> that in JDT, BUT Java doesn't have slicing ".." and variadic functions 
> "..."

You can remove it in Windows -> Preferences -> D -> Editor -> Content 
Assist, in "Auto activation triggers for D" (just remove the dot).

> 
> 
> Add an option, when enabled, if you're in a slice [|] and pressing "." 
> don't show the autocompletion list (| is cursor). Ctrl+Space is still 
> available.

I'll do it, that seems a reasonable solution.

> 
> 
> Add "Libraries" for project properties, including "User Library". See 
> JDT, right click on project -> Properties -> Java Build Path -> 
> Libraries -> Add Library ... -> User Library. This is a must after 
> removing "Installed Compilers" in one of the latest nightly builds.

Done!

 > (...)

Thanks for the feedback.