Which text editors REALLY support D?

Frank Benoit keinfarbton at googlemail.com
Mon Jul 21 10:05:04 PDT 2008


Steven Schveighoffer schrieb:
> "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 
> 
> 

In case of anonymous classes the indention does not work for me in vim.
I use a combination of gvim and kate.




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