DCD 0.3.0-beta1 and DScanner 0.1.0-beta1

[yazd]

On Tuesday, 28 January 2014 at 09:58:27 UTC, Brian Schott wrote:
> New DCD and DScanner betas are  ready for testing. The tags can 
> be found here:
>
> https://github.com/Hackerpilot/DCD/tree/0.3.0-beta1
> https://github.com/Hackerpilot/Dscanner/tree/0.1.0-beta1
>
> DCD Changes:
> * Uptake new lexer/parser/ast code from DScanner
> * Add new --symbolLocation switch that instructs the server to 
> return the
>   declaration location of the symbol at the cursor
> * Add new --doc switch that instructs the server to return any 
> documentation
>   comments associated with the symbol at the cursor
> * Fixed #89: Template declarations not included in autocomplete
> * Fixed #88: Fully qualified names not working
> * Fixed #82: Unable to generate calltips for methods called on 
> variables
> * Fixed #79: Unable to build with both DMD and GDC
> * Fixed #75: Vim plugin doesn't work?
>
> DScanner changes:
> * Now actually tagged with version numbers!
> * Implemented experimental --styleCheck option that will run 
> some basic
>   static analysis checks on the files provided.
> ** Warns when opCmp, toHash, toString, and opEquals are not 
> const
> ** Warns on implicit concatenation of string literals
> ** Warns on catching the base exception types (i.e Exception, 
> Throwable, etc)
> ** Warns when the deprecated floating-point operators are used
> ** Warns when the deprecated "delete" keyword is used
> ** Warns when large enum constants such as array literals are 
> created.
> ** Warns when using old-style alias declarations (i.e. alias 
> type identifier
>    instead of alias identifier = type)
> ** Warns when using deprecated complex number literals.
> ** Warns on empty statements (i.e. spare semicolons)
> ** Warns when using large number literals without underscores
> ** Warns on violations of the Phobos naming conventions (e.g. 
> mixed case
>    package names, lowercase class names, etc)
> * Fixed many issues in the parser
> * Fixed issues with the AST dump not correctly printing several 
> expression node
>   types
> * Rewrote lexer, parser, and AST code. The new lexer generator 
> should be ready
>   for another Phobos review very soon.
>
> About DCD:
>
> DCD is the D Completion Daemon, a text editor and IDE-neutral 
> autocompletion engine for the D programming language. DCD has 
> plugins for several editors such as Textadept, Kate, Vim, 
> Emacs, Zeus, and Sublime Text 3.
>
> About DScanner:
>
> DScanner is a Swiss army knife for D source code. It can 
> perform various tasks such as
> * Source line of code counting
> * Import listing
> * HTML syntax highlighting
> * Syntax checking
> * Some basic static analysis
> * Generating CTAGS
> * Generating an outline of a D file
> * Dumping the AST of a D file into an XML file.
>
> P.S. Only the Textadept module has support for the new 
> --symbolLocation and --doc switches. If you're one of the 
> excellent people who wrote one of the other plugins, I'd 
> appreciate your help adding support for these features to your 
> favorite editor before a non-beta release is tagged.

You're work is filling an important gap. Thanks.

I have just finished updating Sublime Text 3 plugin to use Goto 
Definition feature. But I'm still wondering on how to approach 
the documentation preview feature as Sublime doesn't provide much.

https://github.com/yazd/DKit