Mono-D v0.4.9 - Rough formatting capability

[Rainer Schuetze]

On 26.01.2013 13:09, alex wrote:
> On Saturday, 26 January 2013 at 11:46:27 UTC, alex wrote:
>> Concerning completion server...why not a completion server? :D - I
>> mean, it'll be launched as soon as VisualD launches..and then you can
>> pipe-through commands etc. to interact like it's done the mspdbsrv
>> already. That's imho even easier than using COM + can be driven even
>> as a web server..which would be a real dream then!
>
> Some additional thoughts:
>
> All you need to specify at startup are include paths and some completion
> options or so.
> Then while editing, you either pass changes incrementally or push the
> entire document content to the server. The server parses that document
> then and updates the internal parse cache.
> These parse caches will be used for completion then. As you request e.g.
> the completion window to open or some tooltip info, you just pass the
> module name, the caret location and a command to the server - it'll
> answer then with all the items that shall be shown in the completion
> list or in the tooltip box.
>
> Furthermore, stuff like indenting and formatting could be interfaced,
> too - just push the document content, and it'll pass you back all
> changes to do OR the complete document.
>
> What do you think about this idea?

That's actually what the Visual D semantic server process does.

Syntax highlighting and indenting are done in the plugin, though. These 
don't need anything more than lexing so far and must be fast.

Specifying import paths and compile options isn't so easy, because you 
can have different options for different projects in the solution, 
meaning the same file might be even used with different settings. That's 
also one of the points where integration of D_Parser is kind of brittle.