Which text editors REALLY support D?

[Jesse Phillips]

On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:37:05 +0200, 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'll agree that the lack of proper handling of D specific features is a 
little annoying, but it looks as though that the editors you know of that 
do support it you just don't want. I use Vim myself, I haven't had any 
issues.