For all vim users there's a little script to ease the most annoying part when programming in D. Imports.
http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2534
Be warned. I learned vim script while writing it so there may be bugs.

On Mon, 02 Feb 2009 18:37:55 +1300, naryl <cy@ngs.ru> wrote:

> For all vim users there's a little script to ease the most annoying part when programming in D. Imports.
> http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2534
> Be warned. I learned vim script while writing it so there may be bugs.


I am a vim user so what does it do exactly with the imports and why are imports the most annoying thing?

Tim M Wrote:

> I am a vim user so what does it do exactly with the imports and why are imports the most annoying thing?
Sorry. I'll update the script's page.
And I find anything annoying that can be easily automated by IDE/editor but is not.

naryl wrote:
> Tim M Wrote:
> 
>> I am a vim user so what does it do exactly with the imports and why are  imports the most annoying thing?
> Sorry. I'll update the script's page.
> And I find anything annoying that can be easily automated by IDE/editor but is not.

As an avid user of renaming-imports and selective imports, I'm not so confident that my IDE/editor can or should automate them.  How is my editor to know that when I use 'IConv.toString(...)' it means to issue "private import IConv = tango .text .convert .Integer;"?  I suppose it could be made a setting somewhere (I do usually reuse the same identifiers for common renaming-imports, such as my example).  *shrug* Depends on one's needs, I suppose.

-- Chris Nicholson-Sauls

Chris Nicholson-Sauls Wrote:

> naryl wrote:
> > Tim M Wrote:
> > 
> >> I am a vim user so what does it do exactly with the imports and why are imports the most annoying thing?
> > Sorry. I'll update the script's page.
> > And I find anything annoying that can be easily automated by IDE/editor but is not.
> 
> As an avid user of renaming-imports and selective imports, I'm not so confident that my IDE/editor can or should automate them.  How is my editor to know that when I use 'IConv.toString(...)' it means to issue "private import IConv = tango .text .convert .Integer;"?  I suppose it could be made a setting somewhere (I do usually reuse the same identifiers for common renaming-imports, such as my example).  *shrug* Depends on one's needs, I suppose.
> 
> -- Chris Nicholson-Sauls
ATM it can at least remind you the module or modules with required symbol. You'll only need to write "IConv = ". You're right that D import management is not as easily automated as for example Java.

Chris Nicholson-Sauls wrote:
> How is my editor to know that when I use 'IConv.toString(...)' it means to issue "private import IConv = tango .text .convert .Integer;"?

I call it "IConv", too ;-P