D AutoCompletion: is ycmd integration valuable?

[w0rp via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 16 April 2015 at 14:30:04 UTC, Idan Arye wrote:
> On Thursday, 16 April 2015 at 12:01:48 UTC, w0rp wrote:
>> On Thursday, 16 April 2015 at 11:46:09 UTC, Idan Arye wrote:
>>> Some people - myself included - have already asked Brian to 
>>> make DCD read the project's import paths from Dub or 
>>> something. At first he claimed this is the editor's job - now 
>>> he seems to be accepting the idea enough to accept a pull 
>>> request - but he doesn't care about it enough to implement it 
>>> himself.
>>>
>>> I won't be doing it either, because Dutyl is already doing 
>>> this job and feeding the import paths to DCD, I'm assuming 
>>> the other editor plugins also have their solutions for that 
>>> already, so you can count their maintainers out. You'll need 
>>> someone new to have enough motivation to do it - someone who 
>>> wants to develop a new editor plugin(or plugin for ymcd or 
>>> https://github.com/quarnster/completion or other stuff like 
>>> that) and is willing to contribute to DCD on the way.
>>>
>>> A while back, I've looked a bit into integrating Dutyl with 
>>> ycmd(http://forum.dlang.org/thread/qsvrvtpqrdvfujahkccd@forum.dlang.org?page=2#post-ahwguxayeamrvdczlacu:40forum.dlang.org) 
>>> and found out this connection is a waste of time, since I'll 
>>> have to reimplement all the relevant parts in Python anyways 
>>> so there is no point to make the semantic engine depend on 
>>> Dutyl.
>>
>> I had to do some work to get Syntastic, which I use for syntax 
>> checking in Vim, to get the import paths in there from dub. I 
>> actually raised an issue for dub recently requesting dub to 
>> get a command to ouptut the import paths for you. The 
>> discussion led to me bineg able to finish my program.
>>
>> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dub/issues/542
>>
>> My program can be seen here.
>>
>> https://github.com/w0rp/vim/blob/master/dub_paths.d
>>
>> It looks like Dutyl currently handles this by applying eval to 
>> the result of 'dub describe', then doing the rest in VimL.
>>
>> I might move to using Dutyl, as I am not currently running 
>> DScanner on my projects, and I think it's time that I did. 
>> Using DCD would also be nice, and having documentation on 
>> symbols would be nice. There is a way to implement this in Vim 
>> for mouse hovers. I'm not sure if Dutyl handles this already.
>
> Dutyl doesn't support that mouse hovering feature that you 
> want, and I don't have any plans to implement it, but if you 
> want it you can implement it and send a PR.

Yeah, I was looking into it myself and thought, "Oh, that would 
be a nice addition." So I'll probably fork it at some point and 
submit a pull request.