Which text editors REALLY support D? [Wiki EditorSupport]

[Charles Hixson]

Bruno Medeiros wrote:
> Anders F Björklund wrote:
>> Bruno Medeiros wrote:
>>
>>> IDEs
>>> * Must have semantic features, or a GUI-builder, or good debugger 
>>> integration.
>>> An example of a semantic feature would be code completion (but not 
>>> just completion of D keywords, which is merely syntactic).
>>> If it is a plugin for an IDE (such as Visual Studio), but the plugin 
>>> itself only has editor features, place an appropriate note, or don't 
>>> put it in the IDE category, as you feel appropriate.
>>
>>
>> http://prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?EditorSupport#Othereditors
>>
>> Code::Blocks, while being a C/C++ IDE that kinda thinks that DMD/GDC
>> are some weird "compilers", does have most of the basic IDE features.
>> It does allow you to create projects and edit code, and it allows you
>> to build with DMD or GDC and run and debug them with for instance GDB.
>>
>> So shouldn't it be listed among the D IDE's ? Theoretically it even
>> has a GUI builder with wxSmith and wxD, although no template just yet.
>> (the builder writes xml-based "XRC" files, which can be loaded by wx)
>> And it's also cross-platform and free software, which is rather rare.
>>
>>
>> http://prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?EditorSupport#IDEEditorsthatsupportD
>>
>> I added Xcode to the IDE list, since it does have lexing and completion.
>> http://michelf.com/projects/d-for-xcode/ (does require Mac OS X though)
>>
>> --anders
> 
> Xcode seems to clearly belong in the IDE category, but dunno about 
> Code::Blocks, I don't know it that well. It depends in the level of 
> integration, and for your description of it, it seems to be about in the 
> middle. It could be placed in the IDE category, with a note saying it 
> has few D-specific features. Well, let those who use Code::Blocks say 
> what they think is more appropriate. :P
> 
To me CodeBlocks seems more like an editor than an IDE. (I was using it 
on Linux.)  For C++ it was an IDE, but for D ... well, I've switched to 
Kate, as being a better editor.