Visual D and 'Find all references' broke

[Rainer Schuetze via Digitalmars-d-ide]

On 07.06.2016 23:41, Pie? wrote:
> Thanks, I'll give work on getting it setup in the near future. can I
> accomplish the following in the semantic engine?
>
> 1. search and replace

I guess you mean renaming some symbol and replace all references? This 
is "Find References" (this is in the semantic engine) plus changing the 
source (this needs to be done by Visual D itself).

> 2. Debug helpers: e.g., .net's ToString() and debugger qualifiers like
> ,ac(re-evaluates expression each time), etc...

No, the debug engine is a different component (see mago).

> 3. mixin debugging helpers. (e.g., show the mixin expression to the user
> and possibly the line that is failing).

This could be possible, e.g. by presenting the mixin string in the tooltip.