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

[Alex via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Thursday, 14 August 2014 at 00:54:07 UTC, Brian Schott wrote:
> 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.

Invoking stuff is easy. I'd rather reimplement the communication 
to the dcd server instead to not get such a bottleneck if you're 
on windows or typing really fast. Executing an entire program for 
each keystroke is a real unsustainable solution, imho.

>
>>>> 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

This seems rather easy to implement.