A few issues in VSD

Rainer Schuetze r.sagitario at gmx.de
Mon Nov 18 23:52:24 PST 2013



On 18.11.2013 09:16, Namespace wrote:
> On Monday, 18 November 2013 at 08:09:07 UTC, Rainer Schuetze wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 16.11.2013 23:09, Namespace wrote:
>>> I use VisualD often, but the following three issues are really annoying
>>> (That much that I use it only experimental and for real changes, I use
>>> MonoD).
>>> Any chance to fix them (soon)?
>>>
>>>  - VisualD has no Tasks (I love Tasks, especially if you work in Teams)
>>
>> Everybody is free to make pull requests to that respect ;-)
> I will try it, but I'm sure your better than me. :D

I've never used that VS feature and never felt the need to, so it's not 
top of my priority list...

>>
>>>  - No formatting section in the D options (That is what I miss most)
>>
>> What options do you expect?
> Tab indentation, closing braces etc. The same thing as you have for e.g.
> C#.

Visual D has "smart" indentation that you can also use on a selected 
code block similar to what VS offers for C++. But there is no 
reformatting. I'll have a look at Mono-D to see what it might offer.

>>
>>>  - And because of #2: no brace completion (That is a real killer)
>>
>> You mean automatically adding the closing brace if you write the
>> opening one? I noticed VS2013 now has a setting to this respect on the
>> generic editor options page...
> Yes exactly. That would be nice.
> Otherwise even Sublime is far more comfortable. You should use Sublime
> and MonoD, to see the huge differences in the usage.


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