Which editor to use for editing DDOCs?

biocyberman via Digitalmars-d-learn digitalmars-d-learn at puremagic.com
Tue May 23 00:40:21 PDT 2017


On Monday, 22 May 2017 at 15:33:36 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
> On Mon, 2017-05-22 at 14:14 +0000, biocyberman via 
> Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
>> Which one do you use? I am using Linux and Emacs for editing 
>> other D source file. But the DDOC syntaxes and keywords are 
>> not well high-lighted.
>
> There has been no work on handling DDOC comments specially in 
> the Emacs D Mode as far as I know. There is some attempt to do 
> things for Doxygen, but I am not sure how successful that is as 
> I am not using it.
>
> It is not clear to me that all D's comment mechanisms are 
> handled as they should be. It should be possible, albeit 
> non-trivial I suspect, to add support for all the comment forms 
> and the DDOC macro markup.
>
> The question does anyone have the energy to get stuck into the 
> E-Lisp to achieve the goal – and write the tests to prove it?

Adding DDOC support for D Mode require some more work obviously. 
I will see if I can make some changes to that. For the time 
being, I would like to know which editors people are using. Or is 
it a plain black and white editor ?


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