Intellisense madness

Ignacious via Digitalmars-d-ide digitalmars-d-ide at puremagic.com
Fri Jan 13 12:36:43 PST 2017


I'm sure this has been brought up before... but having 
intellisense list all available accessors in a flat sorted list 
is madness! It prevents one from quickly seeing what kind of 
accessors a type has if they are not familiar with the type.

Surely it would not be difficult to list the direct accessors of 
a type at the top of the list? Or, at the very list, list any 
generic accessors in their own group.

If the coding is too difficult a simple resolution is this:

Take the generic accessors that work on any type and put them at 
the bottom of the list(or color them red or something). This can 
be done easily by just getting the intellisense results off an 
empty type such as Object behind the scenes once and then 
matching them against the type being accessed at hand. Since D 
has many built in generic accessors, it bloats the list with junk 
that I don't need to see most of the time.

In Visual D, intellisense is nearly useless for me. It obfuscates 
rather than helps.

Thanks for investigating this! ;)




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