D AutoCompletion: is ycmd integration valuable?

[Brian Schott via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 17 April 2015 at 00:08:51 UTC, Idan Arye wrote:
> What the ycmd API accepts is not the visual column but the 
> "byte column" - how many bytes from the beginning of the line 
> the cursor is placed. This means that if the semantic engine 
> opens the file and reads it, it can calculate the byte offset 
> from the line and "byte column" supplied to it - without caring 
> about multibyte characters tab settings.

The lexer used by DCD does track the byte columns of tokens.