[Mono-D] v2.1.18 Parser/Completion/General fixes&improvements

[Brian Schott via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Thursday, 14 August 2014 at 00:43:38 UTC, Damian Day wrote:
>> I'm not sure you'd want to do that. The DParser completion 
>> engine has a few features that DCD doesn't have. (I'm not sure 
>> if this is true the other way around)
>
> That's true, but duplicated work and all that.. It would be a 
> nice way to battle test DCD and the lexer.

Keep in mind that integrating a lexer/parser written in C# into 
an IDE written in C# is much easier than integrating libdparse 
would be. The same argument applies to Eclipse and Visual Studio.

>>> I'm particularly interested in dscanner integration myself :)
>>
>> Are you talking about displaying static analysis hints in the 
>> editor window, or something else?
>
> Yes precisely.

This should be easy. I have Textadept set up to do this and the 
implementation is only a few lines long.

https://github.com/Hackerpilot/TextadeptModules/blob/master/modules/dmd/init.lua#L29-54