Which text editors REALLY support D?
Don
nospam at nospam.com.au
Tue Jul 22 00:11:04 PDT 2008
Chris R. Miller wrote:
> 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!)
Does it lex correctly?
Graying out nested comments is the #1 thing I want in a text editor. I'm
appalled that so few of the editors advertised as being for D can
actually satisfy such a trivial requirement.
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