Visual D issues and suggestions

[Laurent Tréguier]

On Wednesday, 24 October 2018 at 06:59:39 UTC, Rainer Schuetze 
wrote:
> Thanks for the hint. I guess the diff only works if the rest of 
> the code is already formatted according to the dfmt rules?

No, it works even if the rest of the code isn't properly 
formatted. This is why I'm using diffs: the extension knows what 
to change, and where, but all of the changes are independent, so 
you can apply whichever you want regardless of the rest to format 
a specific region of the code only.

> Visual D only changes indentation so far, no reflow with 
> insertion or removal of line breaks. IMO all reformatting tools 
> produce strange results, including clang-format, so I usually 
> avoid these. I'm still on the fence whether an integration of 
> dfmt would be a good thing...

That's for sure, there are a lot of weird results with dfmt 
(https://github.com/dlang-community/dfmt/issues/254 comes to my 
mind). It could be added as an option in Visual D's settings, 
while keeping the current re-indentation as the default 
formatting action.