Dutyl - a Vim plugin for running D tools

Idan Arye via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com
Tue Sep 30 01:27:24 PDT 2014


On Monday, 29 September 2014 at 16:09:04 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
> On Sunday, 28 September 2014 at 11:51:21 UTC, Idan Arye wrote:
>> On Thursday, 25 September 2014 at 15:40:22 UTC, John Colvin 
>> wrote:
>>> On Thursday, 14 August 2014 at 22:20:52 UTC, Idan Arye wrote:
>>>> GitHub repo: https://github.com/idanarye/vim-dutyl
>>>> vim.org page: 
>>>> http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=5003
>>>>
>>>> The main problem with my Vim plugin for DCD(placed inside 
>>>> the DCD repo) is the need to set the import paths manually. 
>>>> It was a manual task that the user had to do: DCD doesn't 
>>>> know the import path the current project is using. Vim 
>>>> doesn't know either.
>>>>
>>>> Luckily - DUB knows. So instead of separate Vim plugins for 
>>>> different tools, each operating it's own tool alone, I 
>>>> wanted to create one plugin that'll operate both DUB and DCD 
>>>> - one that can get the list of import modules from DUB and 
>>>> send it to DCD. That's how Dutyl was born.
>>>>
>>>> Currently, Dutyl's only features are using DCD for 
>>>> autocompletion and for DDocs, but it has a module system 
>>>> that allows it to add other tools, either to get more 
>>>> functionality or to get backup for features that some tools 
>>>> can't support for specific projects. Like dependency 
>>>> injection but with a real usecase: for projects that don't 
>>>> use DUB, Dutyl can back up to a manually written list of 
>>>> import paths saved in a hidden file in the project's dir.
>>>>
>>>> I'm open for suggestions for other tools and features to add 
>>>> to Dutyl(write them here, or preferably open GitHub issues 
>>>> with them)
>>>
>>> How does dutyl know where to look for dub.json? It doesn't 
>>> seem to find it on my system.
>>
>> It looks for a file named "dub.json" in the current folder. If 
>> it can not find it, it looks for "package.json".
>
> Ah, ok. Is it feasible to have it check up the directory tree 
> as well, like git does? I often find myself in this situation:
>
> myProject
> |- dub.json
> |- source  <- vim pwd here
>    |- app.d
>
> and so Dutyl misses myProject/dub.json

Seems a little weird to do so, considering that DUB itself does 
not look up in the directory tree...


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