Which text editors REALLY support D?

Don nospam at nospam.com.au
Wed Jul 30 08:43:33 PDT 2008


Jesse Phillips wrote:
> 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 have done some clean up with added categories and removal of all 
> completely dead projects that would be of no use. I don't have the 
> knowledge for in-depth feature support but hopefully it enough to allow 
> people to find the editor that suits them.
> 
> http://prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?EditorSupport

Another requirement: must support unicode source files.
That eliminates SciTE, based on my tests.

SublimeText is an editor that supports D lexing, and should be moved up 
from the bottom category.
Somehow, I can't log into that D wiki any more, or I'd do it myself.



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