Intellisense madness

[Rainer Schuetze via Digitalmars-d-ide]

On 13.01.2017 21:36, Ignacious wrote:
> 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! ;)
>

It never actually bothered me, but I agree a better sorting might be 
preferable. There is little access to the layout of the completion box, 
but the order and the text color can be changed. I'll look into this...