On Friday, 16 May 2014 at 20:28:31 UTC, Tom Browder via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
> On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 2:31 PM, Gary Willoughby via
> Digitalmars-d-learn <digitalmars-d-learn@puremagic.com> wrote:
>> On Friday, 16 May 2014 at 19:17:05 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
>>> Using .di is more idiomatic as those are supposed to denote
>>> declaration-only interface files (with no implementation). In practice it
>>> makes almost no difference though so many people use plain .d by habit.
> ...
>> That's right. I always use .d files when porting C headers because i just
>> see them as regular D code. I like to classify .di files as D 'headers'
>> generated from pure D libraries (using the -H compiler switch). That's just
>> my opinion though and to be honest i don't think it matters. :)
>
> Okay, Dicebot and Gary, that makes good sense I think, thanks.
>
> So I should use the ".d" for the binding source files since there will
> almost certainly be implementation code in them.
>
> Best,
>
> -Tom

Yeah , I do and Deimos does too: https://github.com/D-Programming-Deimos

On Friday, 16 May 2014 at 18:19:45 UTC, Alex Herrmann wrote:
> On Friday, 16 May 2014 at 10:10:17 UTC, Tom Browder via
> Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
>> Thanks for the suggestion, Frank, but I don't do windows.
>
> Monodevelop (open source C# dev platform) has a plugin for D by
> Alexander Bothe called Mono-D which is absolutely fantastic and
> integrates okay with dub too. There is also an emacs major mode
> for d (d-mode) which gives basic highlighting and indentation
> too. I use both all of these tools on my Arch linux set up and
> they work very well, and Mono-D has some debugging support too.
> Best of luck spreading D Tom! You're doing the lord's work son.
>
> Alex

I am very happy with d-mode in emacs.

On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 2:28 PM, Mengu via Digitalmars-d-learn <digitalmars-d-learn@puremagic.com> wrote:
> On Friday, 16 May 2014 at 18:19:45 UTC, Alex Herrmann wrote:
...
>> integrates okay with dub too. There is also an emacs major mode for d (d-mode) which gives basic highlighting and indentation too. I use both all of these tools on my Arch linux set up and they work very well
...
> I am very happy with d-mode in emacs.

Thanks for the reports, Alex and Mengu.  I have installed the d-mode for xemacs but I don't have it working properly yet.  I'll probably have to ask for help with that before too long.

Best,

-Tom