* What is it?
DCD is a client and server program that work together to provide autocomplete suggestions and function call tips to almost any text editor that supports scripting or plugins.

* Who is it for?
People who would like autocomplete, but don't want to give up their favorite editor for an IDE.

* Where is it?
GitHub! https://github.com/Hackerpilot/DCD

* What does it look like?
There's a short demo video on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vo2POmn2_9U

* What editors does it work with?
Textadept, Kate/KDevelop, Vim, and Emacs. The Textadept integration script is the reference implementation.

* This sounds a lot like GoCode
It does, doesn't it?

* Does it work?
Yes and no. DCD is fairly new, and not all of the features you'd expect from a D autocompletion engine are present. I do feel that it's enough of an improvement over not having autocomplete to make this alpha announcement.

* Should I file bug reports in this announcement thread?
No. Add them here: https://github.com/Hackerpilot/DCD/issues?state=open

On Sunday, 1 September 2013 at 10:58:28 UTC, Brian Schott wrote:
> * What is it?
> DCD is a client and server program that work together to provide autocomplete suggestions and function call tips to almost any text editor that supports scripting or plugins.

Do you have any plans to support "go to definition" function? It's really useful in real life.

On Sunday, 1 September 2013 at 13:57:58 UTC, ilya-stromberg wrote:
> Do you have any plans to support "go to definition" function? It's really useful in real life.

Yes. I just filed it as issue 26. https://github.com/Hackerpilot/DCD/issues/26

On 2013-09-01 12:58, Brian Schott wrote:
> * What is it?
> DCD is a client and server program that work together to provide
> autocomplete suggestions and function call tips to almost any text
> editor that supports scripting or plugins.

* Anything new since you last time you announced it?

* How does one best handle starting and stopping of the server?

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg

On Monday, 2 September 2013 at 06:30:48 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> * Anything new since you last time you announced it?
I'm pretty sure this is the first thread in .announce. Somebody
else created a thread about the Kate plugin about a week ago
though.

> * How does one best handle starting and stopping of the server?

"dcd-client --shutdown" will shut down the server.

On 2013-09-02 09:07, Brian Schott wrote:

> "dcd-client --shutdown" will shut down the server.

Well, I'm mean from within the text editor. Is the user expected to run this when quitting the editor?

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg

On Monday, 2 September 2013 at 14:59:10 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2013-09-02 09:07, Brian Schott wrote:
>
>> "dcd-client --shutdown" will shut down the server.
>
> Well, I'm mean from within the text editor. Is the user expected to run this when quitting the editor?

That's something that the editor plugin can call on shutdown. DCD pretty much requires that the editor support scripting.

Do you ever use Sublime Text 2/3? Any plans to support integration with it?

Seriously awesome work. I've wanted to make this since I saw gocode,  but I
couldn't figure out how to get at the ast in dmd.
On 3 Sep 2013 00:25, "Brian Schott" <briancschott@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Monday, 2 September 2013 at 14:59:10 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>
>> On 2013-09-02 09:07, Brian Schott wrote:
>>
>>  "dcd-client --shutdown" will shut down the server.
>>>
>>
>> Well, I'm mean from within the text editor. Is the user expected to run this when quitting the editor?
>>
>
> That's something that the editor plugin can call on shutdown. DCD pretty much requires that the editor support scripting.
>

On Tuesday, 3 September 2013 at 04:54:24 UTC, Rory McGuire wrote:
> Do you ever use Sublime Text 2/3? Any plans to support integration with it?
>
> Seriously awesome work. I've wanted to make this since I saw gocode,  but I
> couldn't figure out how to get at the ast in dmd.
> On 3 Sep 2013 00:25, "Brian Schott" <briancschott@gmail.com> wrote:
>

I'm currently experimenting a bit with Sublime Text and DCD. I might hopefully get an alpha quality plugin that just works in a week. No promises made.

Nice. Would you mind keeping the default key bindings that gosublime uses? On 3 Sep 2013 07:55, "yaz" <yazan.dabain@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tuesday, 3 September 2013 at 04:54:24 UTC, Rory McGuire wrote:
>
>> Do you ever use Sublime Text 2/3? Any plans to support integration with it?
>>
>> Seriously awesome work. I've wanted to make this since I saw gocode,  but
>> I
>> couldn't figure out how to get at the ast in dmd.
>> On 3 Sep 2013 00:25, "Brian Schott" <briancschott@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
> I'm currently experimenting a bit with Sublime Text and DCD. I might hopefully get an alpha quality plugin that just works in a week. No promises made.
>