Coedit version 1 rc1 released

[extrawurst via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Friday, 5 June 2015 at 10:37:23 UTC, Rikki Cattermole wrote:
> On 5/06/2015 10:34 p.m., extrawurst wrote:
>> On Friday, 5 June 2015 at 10:24:10 UTC, Rikki Cattermole wrote:
>>> On 5/06/2015 7:43 p.m., Basile Burg wrote:
>>>> Coedit, the small IDE for the DMD D compiler is about to 
>>>> become 'gold'.
>>>> There 's not much to say since it's been promoted here 
>>>> already 3 or 4
>>>> times.
>>>>
>>>> https://github.com/BBasile/Coedit/releases/tag/1_rc1
>>>>
>>>> beta 2 & 3 had not been announced officialy, so don't forget 
>>>> to read the
>>>> previous change logs. This version is distributed, as 
>>>> previously, in a
>>>> simple archive but also with an installer. I encourage you 
>>>> to test it
>>>> and to report any problem.
>>>>
>>>> version 1 'gold' should be released the 10 of June, exactly 
>>>> 1 year after
>>>> the first commit.
>>>
>>> Ideas:
>>> - Put background shading/box around highlighted {}. To make 
>>> open/close
>>> be more prominent.
>>> - For pointers, have the type highlighted one level darker 
>>> then the *.
>>> So e.g. type** would be [[[type]*]*] where [] indicate 
>>> shading level
>>> when the last * is highlighted over.
>>> * Make source file close have a button. Its not obvious 
>>> enough to use
>>> the keyboard shortcut. I accidentally closed the widget 
>>> thinking I was
>>> going bye bye to the file.
>>>
>>> Bugs:
>>> * Message widget was very temperamental to the point of 
>>> erroring out
>>> when resizing (as it took up the entire middle area).
>>> * When e.g. source code widget is external to main window it 
>>> will open
>>> in the most minimalistic form if the main window gets 
>>> minimized and
>>> reopened.
>>> * __gshared, @nogc, @property not highlighted.
>>>
>>> Atleast for me, without dub support I can't use it. Although 
>>> if
>>> debugging support existed on Windows that would be a massive 
>>> plus.
>>
>> https://github.com/BBasile/Coedit/issues/10
>
> I was just reiterating that point.

Was meant as a +1, since I just created the issue ;)

>
>>>
>>> Oh and if compiler cannot be found, make it a LOT easier to 
>>> configure
>>> it. As in I have compiler e.g. dmd here. Now use it.
>>>
>>> One thing, perhaps for atleast Windows, support e.g. ldc out 
>>> of the
>>> box. As a seperate no install package.