Mainstream D Programming

[James Dennett]

Robert Fraser wrote:
> David Brown Wrote:
> 
>> The problem is that when one uses a specific-focus refactoring tool, they
>> are limited to the transformations that the authors of the tools have
>> thought of (which is still a very useful set), but without the
>> general-purpose text transformations available in a good programmer's
>> editor, one can easily miss other types of refactoring that are also quite
>> useful.
> 
> Most IDEs have regular expressions, etc. -- the features available in a
> good "programmer's editor" are a subset of the features available in a
> good IDE.

Then I eagerly await the first "good IDE".  (I do use IDEs sometimes;
they have a niche for tasks that aren't too simple and aren't too hard.
They're just inefficient for simple things, and don't handle hard
things.  Yet.  I think they will, one day, get better with the more
complex tasks.  I don't know when/if they'll become efficient to use
over a low-speed VPN link, whereas I can still develop efficiently
with powerful text-based tools over such a link.)

-- James