Which text editors REALLY support D?

Steven Schveighoffer schveiguy at yahoo.com
Mon Jul 21 08:48:13 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 vim, but you really need to like vi to use it :)

But I've never really had issues with the syntax highlighting and 
indentation support.

-Steve 




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