Which text editors REALLY support D?

[Bill Baxter]

Don wrote:

>> 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.

I reckon most D modes that exist were created by making minor tweaks
to existing C++ modes, and C++ doesn't have nested comments so the
infrastructure isn't there.  It was one of the harder things to figure
out how to get working with the emacs D mode.

--bb