Coedit alpha 8 released

[Basile Burg via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Sunday, 30 November 2014 at 17:59:06 UTC, ponce wrote:
> On Friday, 28 November 2014 at 16:39:38 UTC, Basile Burg wrote:
>> Hello, a new release of Coedit[MainPage], the small 
>> open-source D
>> IDE for Windows and Linux, is released. Here is a paste of the 
>> release log.
>>
>> Messages:
>> =========
>> - redesigned the widget: a toolbar at the top allows to filter 
>> the messages according to a category, either all, editor 
>> (focused editor messages), project, misc (messages from the 
>> custom tools) or application (Coedit warnings or exceptions).
>> - custom tools messages are redirected if poUsePipes is 
>> defined in the tool options.
>> - errors messages are not split anymore (e.g: instantiated 
>> from here...) thus less confusing.
>>
>> Miscellaneous:
>> ==============
>> - non D files syntax highlighter: txt, md, etc. Automatically 
>> set when opening a file.
>> - the project inspector displays the items from the project 
>> "Path" options (-I, -J, additional sources).
>> - Zoom in,out editor with Ctrl++, Ctrl+-, restore with Ctrl+.
>> - The static explorer widget scans in background, "refresh on 
>> change", "refresh on focus" does not freeze the GUI anymore.
>> - various bug fixed and small improvements.
>> - pre-build binaries include an up-to-date DCD build.
>> - refer to the wiki[WikiPage] for more information about the 
>> changes and the new features.
>>
>> Pre-build binaries are available from the [ReleasePage].
>>
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>> [MainPage]: https://github.com/BBasile/Coedit
>> [ReleasePage]: https://github.com/BBasile/Coedit/releases
>> [WikiPage]:https://github.com/BBasile/Coedit/wiki
>> ---------------------------------------------
>>
>> Baz.
>
> Looks pretty cool but why not support DUB projects directly 
> instead of your own format?

Mostly because when I started "dmd_wrap.pas" (June) I had never 
used DUB at all. A bit as a matter of style too since the project 
things are done the way I like to program in Pascal (properties, 
component streaming, and now the RTTI grid).

Later (end of August) I've changed the code to allow the 
pre-compilation process to be set on DUB (see wiki, tutos, [Build 
with DUB]). Maybe you've noticed it's possible since you've 
written 'why not...directly'.

Now I just wait for the right idea to pop up but just as a hint I 
would say that LoadProjectFromDubFile() and 
SaveProjectToDubFile() is quite faisable.

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[Build with DUB]: 
https://github.com/BBasile/Coedit/wiki#using-dub-in-coedit-as-a-project-pre-build-process
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