Dutyl - a Vim plugin for running D tools

[Idan Arye via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Thursday, 21 August 2014 at 10:20:24 UTC, Weaseldog wrote:
> On Thursday, 21 August 2014 at 08:50:50 UTC, BlackEdder wrote:
>> On Thursday, 14 August 2014 at 22:20:52 UTC, Idan Arye wrote:
>>> I'm open for suggestions for other tools and features to add 
>>> to Dutyl(write them here, or preferably open GitHub issues 
>>> with them)
>>
>> Any idea if this plugin works in conjunction with 
>> YouCompleteMe?
>
> YouCompleteMe will use the available omnifunc as a fallback if 
> no semantic completer for the filetype is provided.
> So, yes, it should work.

I looked a bit into YouCompleteMe to see if I can add a proper 
semantic completer. It appears that semantic completers run on 
the YCMD server rather then inside the Vim instance - which makes 
writing a semantic completer infeasible.

The semantic completer will need to be able to read the import 
paths and to invoke DCD. These two functionalities are 
implemented in Dutyl with VimScript - but to access these 
implementations it'll need to some interface to call these 
functions. I don't know if the YCDM-Vim interaction supports the 
server calling the client, or if Vim's own server-client 
mechanism can be used for it(which will require extra 
configuration), but at any rate it doesn't make much sense to use 
the completion server when the work is done in the Vim instance.

Another option is to reimplement that functionality in Python - 
but if the the import paths gathering, the DCD invokation, and 
the glue code that connects them are all reimplemented there is 
no point in making this part of Dutyl...

Also note that Dutyl sends the content of the current buffer to 
DCD, not the file saved on disc. This diffidently requires access 
to the Vim instance, and changing it is not an option unless you 
want to have to save before you autocomplete.