D AutoCompletion: is ycmd integration valuable?

[Brian Schott via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 16 April 2015 at 16:27:07 UTC, rcorre wrote:
> For example, right now I've (rather haphazardly) patched DCD to 
> accept a line/column number instead of a byte offset (dutyl 
> does this trivially with vim's line2byte).

I've avoided adding this features because byte offset is very 
exact. Column counts can be thrown off by tab width settings in 
some editors. Requiring that the lexer know the tab width before 
it even starts running is a bit of nonsense I'd prefer to not 
deal with.