Descent 0.5.3 released

[Jacob Carlborg]

Ary Borenszweig wrote:
> 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. :-)

:) Thanks