Which text editors REALLY support D?

Vladimir gvv.coder at gmail.com
Sat Aug 23 05:47:05 PDT 2008


Don Wrote:

> I'm pretty frustrated by this Wiki page:
> 
> nhttp://prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?EditorSupport
> 
> It gives some pretty misleading information. Almost all of the listed 
> editors do not support D in any meaningful sense -- most can't even lex 
> D correctly.
> Personally I'm not that interested in highlighting of keywords. But a 
> fundamental requirement is that nested /+ +/ comments and `wysiwg 
> quotes` are handled correctly.
> 
> * CodeBlocks can't lex D.
> * SciTE doesn't include D in their list of supported languages, despite 
> what the D wiki says.
> * Descent works, but it's attached to Eclipse.
> * The recently-released UNA also seems to be Java-based bloatware.
> * Sublime Text would be perfect, but is not free.
> 
> Someone, please tell me there's an editor (not IDE) which can lex D!
> (And let's stop advertising the ones which can't!)
> 
> 
I use Geany.
Fine.



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