Which text editors REALLY support D?

[Chris R. Miller]

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 JEdit a lot.  It's Java-based, but it code-highlights for D and 
the indentation isn't that bad.  It could be better, but it's free, 
works, and it's certainly smaller than the Eclipse footprint (much less 
the Eclipse+Descent footprint!)


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