http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vo2POmn2_9U

DCD is an autocompletion client/server for D. It is designed to be usable by text editors and IDEs. It's still under development at Github: https://github.com/Hackerpilot/DCD

The reference implementation of an editor integration is for Textadept. Modules for Emacs, Vim, and Kate/KDevelop are under development by various members of the D community. Pull requests for other editors are welcome.

On Sunday, 18 August 2013 at 10:15:49 UTC, Brian Schott wrote:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vo2POmn2_9U
>
> DCD is an autocompletion client/server for D. It is designed to be usable by text editors and IDEs. It's still under development at Github: https://github.com/Hackerpilot/DCD
>
> The reference implementation of an editor integration is for Textadept. Modules for Emacs, Vim, and Kate/KDevelop are under development by various members of the D community. Pull requests for other editors are welcome.

I decided to give it a try, following the instructions in the textadept folder, but quickly came unstuck with lua errors and some form of endless loop in textadept.

What I did:
built dcd
installed textadept 6.6
copied DCD/modules/dmd/dcd.lua to ~/.textadept/modules/dmd/dcd.lua
created new ~/.textadept/modules/dmd/init.lua with content:

_M.dcd = require "dmd.dcd"

events.connect(events.CHAR_ADDED, function(ch)
    _M.dcd.autocomplete(ch)
end)

started the server
started textadept
saved a .d file
got errors:
/opt/textadept/modules/textadept/menu.lua:365: attempt to index field '?' (a boolean value)
/opt/textadept/modules/textadept/mime_types.lua:97: bad argument #1 to '__index' (this buffer is not the current one)

any activity in the code window causes a repeat of the 1st error. file->close opens a duplicate code window (WFT?) and file->closeall starts an infinite loop of opening and closing windows.

I just checked in an example init.lua. I think that my directions weren't clear enough for someone who is not familiar with TA scripting. Give it a try now.

On 18/08/2013 11:15, Brian Schott wrote:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vo2POmn2_9U
>
> DCD is an autocompletion client/server for D. It is designed to be
> usable by text editors and IDEs. It's still under development at Github:
> https://github.com/Hackerpilot/DCD
>
> The reference implementation of an editor integration is for Textadept.
> Modules for Emacs, Vim, and Kate/KDevelop are under development by
> various members of the D community. Pull requests for other editors are
> welcome.

Interesting project. Out of curiosity, how did you implement the parser? Did you re-use any existing one?

-- 
Bruno Medeiros - Software Engineer

On Friday, 30 August 2013 at 17:53:12 UTC, Bruno Medeiros wrote:
> On 18/08/2013 11:15, Brian Schott wrote:
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vo2POmn2_9U
>>
>> DCD is an autocompletion client/server for D. It is designed to be
>> usable by text editors and IDEs. It's still under development at Github:
>> https://github.com/Hackerpilot/DCD
>>
>> The reference implementation of an editor integration is for Textadept.
>> Modules for Emacs, Vim, and Kate/KDevelop are under development by
>> various members of the D community. Pull requests for other editors are
>> welcome.
>
> Interesting project. Out of curiosity, how did you implement the parser? Did you re-use any existing one?

It's hand-written and located here:
https://github.com/Hackerpilot/Dscanner/tree/master/stdx/d

The grammar I created while implementing the parser is here:
https://github.com/Hackerpilot/DGrammar/blob/master/D.g4

That grammar is more accurate than the language specification on the  dlang website. I kept track of the language specification problems that I found with this bug: http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=10233

On Sunday, 18 August 2013 at 10:15:49 UTC, Brian Schott wrote:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vo2POmn2_9U
>
> DCD is an autocompletion client/server for D. It is designed to be usable by text editors and IDEs. It's still under development at Github: https://github.com/Hackerpilot/DCD
>
> The reference implementation of an editor integration is for Textadept. Modules for Emacs, Vim, and Kate/KDevelop are under development by various members of the D community. Pull requests for other editors are welcome.

Thats awesome, as someone who came from Go this can give huge
boost to IDEs.

On Sunday, 18 August 2013 at 10:15:49 UTC, Brian Schott wrote:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vo2POmn2_9U


Very nice! How far along is the emacs version? What are the missing things you mention in the readme?

On Sunday, 18 August 2013 at 10:15:49 UTC, Brian Schott wrote:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vo2POmn2_9U
>
> DCD is an autocompletion client/server for D. It is designed to be usable by text editors and IDEs. It's still under development at Github: https://github.com/Hackerpilot/DCD
>
> The reference implementation of an editor integration is for Textadept. Modules for Emacs, Vim, and Kate/KDevelop are under development by various members of the D community. Pull requests for other editors are welcome.

So I assume we have to save any changes in the file before we "ask" DCD for completion, right?

On Tuesday, 17 September 2013 at 08:26:57 UTC, Dejan Lekic wrote:

> So I assume we have to save any changes in the file before we "ask" DCD for completion, right?

No, not necessarily. DCD can take input from stdin. So if your editor can provide the plugin with the content of the unsaved file it should be fine. TextMate can do that, for example.

--
/Jacob Carlborg