I opened up a dub generated VS project. Went to mess with testing stuff. No intellisense.

I decided to install MonoD. intellisense! Same code, same object, only difference is after I hit the ., MonoD shows me something, VD doesn't!

Everything is a rather new install.

Does Visual D have some settings for intelligent, simply not support it, or are there certain hoops that have to be jumped through to get it to work?

On 03.01.2016 01:09, Jason Jeffory wrote:
> I opened up a dub generated VS project. Went to mess with testing stuff.
> No intellisense.
>
> I decided to install MonoD. intellisense! Same code, same object, only
> difference is after I hit the ., MonoD shows me something, VD doesn't!
>
> Everything is a rather new install.
>
> Does Visual D have some settings for intelligent, simply not support it,
> or are there certain hoops that have to be jumped through to get it to
> work?

Visual D and MonoD use the same semantic engine for intellisense. There might be some small differences in integration quality, though.

Check the "Language Options" accessible through the Visual D menu: you might have to change the intellisense trigger from "Ctrl-Space" to writing ".".

On Sunday, 3 January 2016 at 09:59:29 UTC, Rainer Schuetze wrote:
> Check the "Language Options" accessible through the Visual D menu: you might have to change the intellisense trigger from "Ctrl-Space" to writing ".".

From a C# programmer's view that's not IntelliSense - that's a bad joke. Ideally IntelliSense would actually trigger while typing!

On Saturday, 18 February 2017 at 19:56:45 UTC, Jolly James wrote:
> On Sunday, 3 January 2016 at 09:59:29 UTC, Rainer Schuetze wrote:
>> Check the "Language Options" accessible through the Visual D menu: you might have to change the intellisense trigger from "Ctrl-Space" to writing ".".
>
> From a C# programmer's view that's not IntelliSense - that's a bad joke. Ideally IntelliSense would actually trigger while typing!

I wish there were one IDE support this. Does anybody know?

On 18.02.2017 21:52, Dani Abraham wrote:
> On Saturday, 18 February 2017 at 19:56:45 UTC, Jolly James wrote:
>> On Sunday, 3 January 2016 at 09:59:29 UTC, Rainer Schuetze wrote:
>>> Check the "Language Options" accessible through the Visual D menu:
>>> you might have to change the intellisense trigger from "Ctrl-Space"
>>> to writing ".".
>>
>> From a C# programmer's view that's not IntelliSense - that's a bad
>> joke. Ideally IntelliSense would actually trigger while typing!
>
> I wish there were one IDE support this. Does anybody know?

You can enable this mode in Visual D by selecting to show expansions when "writing an identifier".

On Saturday, 18 February 2017 at 23:17:10 UTC, Rainer Schuetze wrote:
> You can enable this mode in Visual D by selecting to show expansions when "writing an identifier".

Thank you very much

On Saturday, 18 February 2017 at 23:17:10 UTC, Rainer Schuetze wrote:
> You can enable this mode in Visual D by selecting to show expansions when "writing an identifier".

Another question: Do you know how to get code snippets work (ctor, ... ) do not show up in IntelliSense (and do not work when pressing Tab+Tab either)?

On 19.02.2017 02:59, Jolly James wrote:
> On Saturday, 18 February 2017 at 23:17:10 UTC, Rainer Schuetze wrote:
>> You can enable this mode in Visual D by selecting to show expansions
>> when "writing an identifier".
>
> Another question: Do you know how to get code snippets work (ctor, ... )
> do not show up in IntelliSense (and do not work when pressing Tab+Tab
> either)?

Code snippets are usually invoked by Ctrl-K,Ctrl-X. Unfortunately it seems to be broken is VS2015 (works in VS2013).

You can assign a shortcut to Edit.InvokeSnippetFromShortcut, this seems to work in both VS versions. You can add your own snippets with the snippet manager (usually invoked by Ctrl-K,Ctrl-B).

Intellisense for constructors currently does not work too well, these are mapped to member function __ctor internally. This needs to be translated somehow.

Or do you mean that the snippets should be part of the completion list? Sounds reasonable...

On Wednesday, 22 February 2017 at 06:42:48 UTC, Rainer Schuetze wrote:
>
>
> On 19.02.2017 02:59, Jolly James wrote:
>> [...]
>
> Code snippets are usually invoked by Ctrl-K,Ctrl-X. Unfortunately it seems to be broken is VS2015 (works in VS2013).
>
> You can assign a shortcut to Edit.InvokeSnippetFromShortcut, this seems to work in both VS versions. You can add your own snippets with the snippet manager (usually invoked by Ctrl-K,Ctrl-B).
>
> Intellisense for constructors currently does not work too well, these are mapped to member function __ctor internally. This needs to be translated somehow.
>
> Or do you mean that the snippets should be part of the completion list? Sounds reasonable...

Yep, I would have expected them to be in the completion list.

On 22.02.2017 18:29, Jolly James wrote:
>>
>> Or do you mean that the snippets should be part of the completion
>> list? Sounds reasonable...
>
> Yep, I would have expected them to be in the completion list.

You can now find code snippets added to the completion list in https://github.com/dlang/visuald/releases/tag/v0.44-rc2