D AutoCompletion: is ycmd integration valuable?

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On Thursday, 16 April 2015 at 12:01:48 UTC, w0rp wrote:
> On Thursday, 16 April 2015 at 11:46:09 UTC, Idan Arye wrote:
>> Some people - myself included - have already asked Brian to 
>> make DCD read the project's import paths from Dub or 
>> something. At first he claimed this is the editor's job - now 
>> he seems to be accepting the idea enough to accept a pull 
>> request - but he doesn't care about it enough to implement it 
>> himself.
>>
>> I won't be doing it either, because Dutyl is already doing 
>> this job and feeding the import paths to DCD, I'm assuming the 
>> other editor plugins also have their solutions for that 
>> already, so you can count their maintainers out. You'll need 
>> someone new to have enough motivation to do it - someone who 
>> wants to develop a new editor plugin(or plugin for ymcd or 
>> https://github.com/quarnster/completion or other stuff like 
>> that) and is willing to contribute to DCD on the way.
>>
>> A while back, I've looked a bit into integrating Dutyl with 
>> ycmd(http://forum.dlang.org/thread/qsvrvtpqrdvfujahkccd@forum.dlang.org?page=2#post-ahwguxayeamrvdczlacu:40forum.dlang.org) 
>> and found out this connection is a waste of time, since I'll 
>> have to reimplement all the relevant parts in Python anyways 
>> so there is no point to make the semantic engine depend on 
>> Dutyl.
>
> I had to do some work to get Syntastic, which I use for syntax 
> checking in Vim, to get the import paths in there from dub. I 
> actually raised an issue for dub recently requesting dub to get 
> a command to ouptut the import paths for you. The discussion 
> led to me bineg able to finish my program.
>
> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dub/issues/542
>
> My program can be seen here.
>
> https://github.com/w0rp/vim/blob/master/dub_paths.d
>
> It looks like Dutyl currently handles this by applying eval to 
> the result of 'dub describe', then doing the rest in VimL.
>
> I might move to using Dutyl, as I am not currently running 
> DScanner on my projects, and I think it's time that I did. 
> Using DCD would also be nice, and having documentation on 
> symbols would be nice. There is a way to implement this in Vim 
> for mouse hovers. I'm not sure if Dutyl handles this already.

Hi,
Try neomake[1], I wrote the checker for it - it will 
automatically detect of you're on a dub project and parse the dub 
describe output for includes.

Also, if you use neovim it runs in the background and is 
non-blocking.

I guess I shod make a blog post for setting up vim to use D ad 
I've seem a lot of trouble with it recently.

[1] https://github.com/benekastah/neomake?files=1