Adding D Editor Support

[Nick Sabalausky]

"John A. De Goes" <john.withoutspam. at n-brain.net> wrote in message 
news:g2rt5g$28e3$1 at digitalmars.com...
> Hi,
>
> We're adding support for the D language to UNA (http://www.n-brain.net). 
> The Personal Edition has been released free of charge (down from $100).
>
> However, none of us have used D so we'd like a bit of help.
>
> We've added support (in dev version) to matching messages of the form:
>
> foo.d(5): Warning: silly variable name
> foo.d(5): Error: spelling error in variable name "foobir"
>
> Assuming this is correct, we'd like to proceed with adding commonly used 
> source code constructs, D idioms, and so forth. We call this 'source 
> snippets'. Each source snippet has a few letter textual key. Typing that 
> key and invoking the source snippet button inserts the snippet.
>
> So I'm soliciting for everyone's favorite source snippet.

I know this isn't what you're asking for, and maybe it's already in there (I 
haven't looked), but *please* make sure the syntax hightlighting *properly* 
supports both C-style block comments *and* D's nested block comments. It's a 
minor issue of course, but a real pet peeve of mine. Most of the D editors 
I've tried either highlight D's nested comments (ie, "/+ +/") as if they 
behaved like the non-nestable "/* */" comments, or don't even recognize them 
as comments at all.

BTW, Are you the same John De Goes that wrote a software-3D book about ten 
or so years ago? I still have that around here somewhere. Good book.