IDEs (Was: Mainstream D Programming)

[BCS]

Reply to Christopher,

> BCS wrote:
> 
>> Reply to Jan,
>> 
>>> Op Sun, 14 Oct 2007 22:58:47 +0000 (UTC)
>>> schreef BCS <ao at pathlink.com>:
>>>> I once saw a screen shot of IRSSI (an IRC chat app) running in a VS
>>>> tab. I wonder what it would take to run emacs/vi as a VS plugin.
>>>> 
>>> <http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/if_ole.html#MSVisualStudio>
>>> :)
>>> 
>> any idea what it ends up looking like? Does it pop a new window or
>> does it just take over a tab?
>> 
> New window. If you want combined features of VS and Vim, use viemu
> (www.viemu.com), which costs $70 for a permanent copy.
> 

Now that's an IDE model I like. 

Editor? why should I wright an editor? here's an plugin API, embed your own 
editor.

For that matter; syntax highlighting? same thing. Code completion, refactoring, 
code search? Same thing again.

Heck, how about a IDE that's nothing but am open/close menu that looks for 
a plugin to generate a tab for whatever you open?