DlangIDE update

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On Wednesday, 9 December 2015 at 05:47:07 UTC, Vadim Lopatin 
wrote:
> On Tuesday, 8 December 2015 at 18:18:29 UTC, default0 wrote:
>> Sweet! Glad you're back and working on this!
>> Was wanting to give it a shot, but typing } on my keyboard 
>> (german layout, right-alt + 0) did not actually insert the 
>> character into the opened document, so I gave up.
> What is a platform? Linux with SDL? How do I reproduce it? 
> Could you please submit a bug on github?

Done!
>> One of the things I did manage to try was putting a readln() 
>> into the standard hello-world-console-app preset. Turns out 
>> that it causes dlangide to hang up because it's not actually 
>> possible to have user input (or to configure dlangide to start 
>> the project separately so a regular console window appears). 
>> Killing the started process also was not possible since the 
>> respective option to stop debugging is still grayed out.
> Input hangs because running currently is just invoking of `dub 
> run` - with input and output redirected. Output is shown in IDE 
> message log, but for input just nothing is sent.
> I'm working on debugging, and as well will implement running 
> apps w/o debugger with separate console.

Sounds good! When the typical edit-compile-debug cycle works this 
will probably already be enough to start using it for smaller 
projects :-)

>> I still haven't written much D code and my time is somewhat 
>> limited, but if there are simple tasks you need to get done, I 
>> would be glad to offer help!
> It would be great.
>
Will be looking through GitHub and try to set DlangUI etc. up 
locally, too and see what I can do :-)

>> Here's to hoping this IDE will keep going and turn out well :-)
> I think for programming language, it's big + to have native GUI 
> library and IDE written in the same language. Adding Delphi 
> style GUI builder could attract newbies.

Yeah, also has the advantage of being able to work on DlangIDE 
while using DlangIDE, once it's come along some ways.