CTags does not seem to support the D language. When source code files become bigger, navigating them becomes more difficult, even when you use code folding and bookmarks.

It would be extremely helpful to have an editor which features a class browser that supports the D language.

JEdit has a plugin that parses the currently opened file based using CTags and displays a list of functions/classes.

Has anyone added D support to CTags? Or is there any other editor with good D support?

"Andreas Schmid" <monkey@gmx.info> wrote in message news:d4g60e$o6j$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> CTags does not seem to support the D language. When source code files become bigger, navigating them becomes more difficult, even when you use code folding and bookmarks.
>
> It would be extremely helpful to have an editor which features a class browser that supports the D language.
>
> JEdit has a plugin that parses the currently opened file based using CTags and displays a list of functions/classes.
>
> Has anyone added D support to CTags? Or is there any other editor with good D support?

I'm not aware of anyone getting CTags (or etags) to work with D (or writing a DTags). It shouldn't be too hard to do since the D parser is included with the dmd download. For projects like this I put some backend stubs into the dmd source and made the "dmd front end starter kit" http://home.comcast.net/~benhinkle/dmdfe/ which parses files and analyzes them and then quits. I'm using it already for on-the-fly dlint highlighting in the D mode for Emacs (see http://home.comcast.net/~benhinkle/dlint/). I don't know the CTags file format but one can pretty easily imagine taking the parse tree and spitting out the symbols to a file.

Andreas Schmid wrote:
> CTags does not seem to support the D language. When source code files become bigger, navigating them becomes more difficult, even when you use code folding and bookmarks.

try leds. http://svn.dsource.org/svn/projects/leds/trunk/leds_linux_preview.gz
for a full experience follow the project setup carefully:
http://leds.sourceforge.net/projBuild.html
http://leds.sourceforge.net/projTarget.html

(I'm still planing to have a windows version)

charles started with ctags but I think he did the right thing and moved to use the dmd front end.

I tried cold folding and found it to be useless.

Ant

Exactly what I've been looking for (http://leds.sourceforge.net/mainOutline_file_01.png) ... Unfortunately I am on Windows.

What's missing to make it run on Windows?

"Ant" <duitoolkit@yahoo.ca> wrote in message news:d4gaep$r6h$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> Andreas Schmid wrote:
>> CTags does not seem to support the D language. When source code files become bigger, navigating them becomes more difficult, even when you use code folding and bookmarks.
>
> try leds. http://svn.dsource.org/svn/projects/leds/trunk/leds_linux_preview.gz for a full experience follow the project setup carefully: http://leds.sourceforge.net/projBuild.html http://leds.sourceforge.net/projTarget.html
>
> (I'm still planing to have a windows version)
>
> charles started with ctags but I think he did the right thing and moved to use the dmd front end.
>
> I tried cold folding and found it to be useless.
>
> Ant

Andreas Schmid wrote:
> Exactly what I've been looking for (http://leds.sourceforge.net/mainOutline_file_01.png) ... Unfortunately I am on Windows.
> 
> What's missing to make it run on Windows?


- compiling scintilla on Gtk mode for windows
	(I have a dll for 2.4.x but I moved to 2.6.x and I don't know how to do it)
- and time to update all my libs on windows to gtk 2.6.x and dmd 0.121.

but you have to install Gtk 2.6 on windows.
or maybe I can come up with a static linked version(?)

I'll work on all these when I have the time.

(A pre-alpha version of leds for windows without scintilla does exist
and is unusable (no undo/redo).)

try elefante (dsource) (I don't know if it is usable).

Ant

Ant wrote:

> - compiling scintilla on Gtk mode for windows
>     (I have a dll for 2.4.x but I moved to 2.6.x and I don't know how to do it)
> - and time to update all my libs on windows to gtk 2.6.x and dmd 0.121.

ok, I'm freezing the linux version and start work on windows.
(beware, my time is limited these days)

Ant

Ant wrote:
...
> try elefante (dsource) (I don't know if it is usable).

I think you meant "Elephant". The forum is at http://www.dsource.org/forums/viewforum.php?f=57. The download page is:
http://www.thecodebase.com/elephant.html

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"Ant" <duitoolkit@yahoo.ca> wrote in message news:d4gg1m$vfo$2@digitaldaemon.com...
> Ant wrote:
>
> > - compiling scintilla on Gtk mode for windows
> >     (I have a dll for 2.4.x but I moved to 2.6.x and I don't know how to
> > do it)
> > - and time to update all my libs on windows to gtk 2.6.x and dmd 0.121.
>
> ok, I'm freezing the linux version and start work on windows.
> (beware, my time is limited these days)
>
> Ant

I'm very much looking forward to seeing how this turns out.  :)

TZ