Any IDEs or editors that are compatible with D 2.0?

Steven Schveighoffer schveiguy at yahoo.com
Wed May 27 07:51:54 PDT 2009


On Wed, 27 May 2009 10:21:30 -0400, Lars T. Kyllingstad  
<public at kyllingen.nospamnet> wrote:

> Matt Nawrocki wrote:
>> Hi... are there any IDEs or editors out there that support DMD 2.0 yet?  
>> I am having a hard time finding a good one. Thanks!
>>   Matt
>
>
> When you say "editor that supports D", do you primarily mean syntax  
> highlighting? In that case, there should be plenty, as there really  
> isn't much difference between D1 and D2.
>
> Also, you didn't say whether you use Windows or Linux. On Linux, I know  
> that both vim, gedit and Kate have syntax highlighting for D. Also, Bill
> Baxter made an emacs mode for D some years ago,
>
> http://www.digitalmars.com/pnews/read.php?server=news.digitalmars.com&group=digitalmars.D.announce&artnum=7754
>
> Personally, I use vim, and for D2 I only had to add the keywords "ref"  
> and "string" to the syntax file. :)

ref should be added to the default D syntax file, it's D1/D2.
string is not a keyword (although syntax highlighting it might be a good  
idea).

Some other new keywords to add:
immutable
shared
__traits

> I can't say anything about IDEs or Windows, as use neither.

Vim works on windows.

-Steve



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