Which text editors REALLY support D?
Bill Baxter
dnewsgroup at billbaxter.com
Mon Jul 21 12:57:15 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!)
The emacs mode works pretty well. Nested comments definitely work
properly. But there is a change needed to the cc-mode it's based on to
get "static if"s to nest line up properly.
--bb
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