Descent 0.5.3 released

Ary Borenszweig ary at esperanto.org.ar
Wed Dec 31 04:42:06 PST 2008


Jacob Carlborg escribió:
> Ary Borenszweig wrote:
>> 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).
> 
> I'm not sure if you understand what I mean but the biggest problem is 
> not the activation of the content assist, it's the insertion of the 
> selected element in the list when the content assist is active, when you 
> press dot the second time. I still want to use dot as the activation of 
> content assist when accessing class members and similar.

Now I see what you meen. I'll add an option for it. :-)


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