Qt Creator and D

growler growlercab at gmail.com
Wed Sep 18 16:31:46 PDT 2013


On Wednesday, 18 September 2013 at 23:25:56 UTC, growler wrote:
> On Wednesday, 18 September 2013 at 17:38:57 UTC, Joseph Rushton 
> Wakeling wrote:
>> On 18/09/13 19:10, Paulo Pinto wrote:
>>> For starters, Qt creator can make use of Kate configuration 
>>> files.
>>>
>>> So we could at very least have D syntax highlighting 
>>> available.
>>
>> It is available -- current Qt Creator has the same d.xml as 
>> the most recent Kate.  It dates from 2011 and supports both D 
>> and Ddoc syntax highlighting.
>>
>> I wasn't able to get auto-indentation working with D source 
>> files, though.
>
> +1
>
> I use Qt Creator for debugging D when I get a hangover from too 
> much GDB. It works fine with breakpoints, watch list and the 
> rest. As long as I compile with -gc though.
>
> What would be nice is a plugin that provides some tools like 
> jump to definition for variables, find usages etc. I'd be 
> willing to help out with that, testing, coding, documenting etc.

I should point out that the debugging is all from "Start and 
Debug External Application" so of course there is no real 
"project" support in the IDE. But it automatically steps into all 
my code, third-party code (gtkd, orange etc.) and Phobos without 
any major problems.


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