Request for editor scripting help

[Idan Arye]

On Friday, 9 August 2013 at 06:41:10 UTC, Brian Schott wrote:
> I've been making some progress on a project called DCD[1], 
> which is D's answer to Go's Gocode[2]. It's a command-line 
> client/server autocompletion program for D built off the same 
> lexer/parser/ast code that powers DScanner.
>
> I'd like to get some help writing integration scripts for the 
> editors that I don't use such as Vim, Emacs, Sublime, and of 
> course your favorite that I left off the list. If you have 
> experience scripting your text editor of choice and some spare 
> time to play with new and unstable software, please consider 
> creating a pull request.
>
> [1] https://github.com/Hackerpilot/DCD
> [2] https://github.com/nsf/gocode

I wrote the Vim script for your Dscanner, so it shouldn't be a 
problem to copy it and convert ti to use DCD.

But before I do that, I need you to implement a very important 
functionality that Dscanner has - the ability to take input from 
SDTIN. Without this, we would have to save the source file before 
we can query it - and saving the file is not something an 
autocompletion feature should do...

It would also be nice to be able to trick DCD into thinking that 
the data it got from STDIN is actually the content of the unsaved 
source file. I don't think it should affect the results now, but 
it might have impact on features you will add in the future, and 
I think all editors should support it before those new features 
come out.


Anyways, I think such a project should be integrated with a build 
system, so it could take the import information(and maybe some 
other data) from there.