Saving my sanity!

[Rainer Schuetze]

On 03.10.2017 09:27, Joseph wrote:
> Visual D has took 1/2 of my hair! Because intellisense is so broke, I 
> cannot navigate my complex program easily, specially if I have forgot 
> something. It would be really nice if at least find all reference or go 
> to definition worked properly!  It seems that visual D is ignoring half 
> of my project from being input as intellisense sources.

Sorry to hear Visual D affecting your hair. Unfortunately the D language 
is rather difficult to implement. The semantic analysis is borrowed from 
Mono-D, with just a few additions done for Visual D: 
https://github.com/rainers/D_Parser. As far as I can tell it is still 
the best engine for IDE integration around.

The last couple of days I've been trying to use the dmd front end 
instead, but so far I've been unable to tame it from eating memory like 
crazy.

> 
> I'm not sure, but I compiled some of my code with the json tag and stuck 
> it in the json directory visual d wants and some of my data seems to 
> have intellisense.

If the json files are generated as part of the build process, they are 
automatically included in the internal "database" (also visible in the 
object browser). No need to copy them into one of the predefined 
directories.

With respect to completion, the information in JSON files has the 
advantage that it is available before the proper imports are added for 
symbols to be found in the current scope. The disadvantage is that it 
has little information about scope to begin with, so only filters by name.