Hi there,

I've noticed that it's not possible to enable/disable the "Automatic Brace Completion" when working in D, unlike in C#/C++, in Visual Studio 2015. Is there any reason in particular this feature wasn't implemented? Would it be possible to implement it in the next version of Visual D?

On 20.10.2016 02:05, Heisenberg wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I've noticed that it's not possible to enable/disable the "Automatic
> Brace Completion" when working in D, unlike in C#/C++, in Visual Studio
> 2015. Is there any reason in particular this feature wasn't implemented?
> Would it be possible to implement it in the next version of Visual D?

I'm not sure I like or hate this function as I'm often fighting it in C++, but it seems a lot of people cannot live without ;-)

I've tried to mimick what C++ does, you can find a preview build here: https://ci.appveyor.com/project/rainers/visuald/build/1.0.81/job/8147gen7veuhue3f/artifacts

On 21.10.2016 22:04, Rainer Schuetze wrote:
>
>
> On 20.10.2016 02:05, Heisenberg wrote:
>> Hi there,
>>
>> I've noticed that it's not possible to enable/disable the "Automatic
>> Brace Completion" when working in D, unlike in C#/C++, in Visual Studio
>> 2015. Is there any reason in particular this feature wasn't implemented?
>> Would it be possible to implement it in the next version of Visual D?
>
> I'm not sure I like or hate this function as I'm often fighting it in
> C++, but it seems a lot of people cannot live without ;-)
>
> I've tried to mimick what C++ does, you can find a preview build here:
> https://ci.appveyor.com/project/rainers/visuald/build/1.0.81/job/8147gen7veuhue3f/artifacts
>

Oops, a registry setting was still wrong, use this build instead:
https://ci.appveyor.com/project/rainers/visuald/build/1.0.82/job/i460nuy2d374lia4/artifacts

On Saturday, 22 October 2016 at 09:49:59 UTC, Rainer Schuetze wrote:
>
>
> On 21.10.2016 22:04, Rainer Schuetze wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 20.10.2016 02:05, Heisenberg wrote:
>>> [...]
>>
>> I'm not sure I like or hate this function as I'm often fighting it in
>> C++, but it seems a lot of people cannot live without ;-)
>>
>> I've tried to mimick what C++ does, you can find a preview build here:
>> https://ci.appveyor.com/project/rainers/visuald/build/1.0.81/job/8147gen7veuhue3f/artifacts
>>
>
> Oops, a registry setting was still wrong, use this build instead:
> https://ci.appveyor.com/project/rainers/visuald/build/1.0.82/job/i460nuy2d374lia4/artifacts

Thanks a TON! Excuse my annoyance, but can anything similar be done for the quotes as well? :P

On 22.10.2016 15:42, Heisenberg wrote:
> On Saturday, 22 October 2016 at 09:49:59 UTC, Rainer Schuetze wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 21.10.2016 22:04, Rainer Schuetze wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On 20.10.2016 02:05, Heisenberg wrote:
>>>> [...]
>>>
>>> I'm not sure I like or hate this function as I'm often fighting it in
>>> C++, but it seems a lot of people cannot live without ;-)
>>>
>>> I've tried to mimick what C++ does, you can find a preview build here:
>>> https://ci.appveyor.com/project/rainers/visuald/build/1.0.81/job/8147gen7veuhue3f/artifacts
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Oops, a registry setting was still wrong, use this build instead:
>> https://ci.appveyor.com/project/rainers/visuald/build/1.0.82/job/i460nuy2d374lia4/artifacts
>>
>
> Thanks a TON! Excuse my annoyance, but can anything similar be done for
> the quotes as well? :P

Try this one:

https://ci.appveyor.com/project/rainers/visuald/build/1.0.83/job/7w30yaomx188fxyr/artifacts

It also "remembers" automatically inserted characters after a line break.

On Sunday, 23 October 2016 at 09:41:05 UTC, Rainer Schuetze wrote:
>
>
> On 22.10.2016 15:42, Heisenberg wrote:
>> On Saturday, 22 October 2016 at 09:49:59 UTC, Rainer Schuetze wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On 21.10.2016 22:04, Rainer Schuetze wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 20.10.2016 02:05, Heisenberg wrote:
>>>>> [...]
>>>>
>>>> I'm not sure I like or hate this function as I'm often fighting it in
>>>> C++, but it seems a lot of people cannot live without ;-)
>>>>
>>>> I've tried to mimick what C++ does, you can find a preview build here:
>>>> https://ci.appveyor.com/project/rainers/visuald/build/1.0.81/job/8147gen7veuhue3f/artifacts
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Oops, a registry setting was still wrong, use this build instead:
>>> https://ci.appveyor.com/project/rainers/visuald/build/1.0.82/job/i460nuy2d374lia4/artifacts
>>>
>>
>> Thanks a TON! Excuse my annoyance, but can anything similar be done for
>> the quotes as well? :P
>
> Try this one:
>
> https://ci.appveyor.com/project/rainers/visuald/build/1.0.83/job/7w30yaomx188fxyr/artifacts
>
> It also "remembers" automatically inserted characters after a line break.

Awesome. Thank you. This makes it much more straightforward.

Last thing that just came to my mind: would it be possible to insert a tabulation and move the ending brace to the next line, similarly to how it's done in Visual C++ editor? That is:

1) {}
2) {-press Enter here-}
3) {
       -pointer moving here automatically-
   }

On 23.10.2016 16:54, Heisenberg wrote:
> Last thing that just came to my mind: would it be possible to insert a
> tabulation and move the ending brace to the next line, similarly to how
> it's done in Visual C++ editor? That is:
>
> 1) {}
> 2) {-press Enter here-}
> 3) {
>        -pointer moving here automatically-
>    }

This has been one of the more annoying functions for me until I now realized that the empty line is removed if I just continue writing the closing brace. This makes it slightly more complicated to implement, but I've tried to emulate that here:

https://ci.appveyor.com/project/rainers/visuald/build/1.0.84/job/63qb4wph5jbq0w43/artifacts

On Tuesday, 25 October 2016 at 07:33:45 UTC, Rainer Schuetze wrote:
>
>
> On 23.10.2016 16:54, Heisenberg wrote:
>> Last thing that just came to my mind: would it be possible to insert a
>> tabulation and move the ending brace to the next line, similarly to how
>> it's done in Visual C++ editor? That is:
>>
>> 1) {}
>> 2) {-press Enter here-}
>> 3) {
>>        -pointer moving here automatically-
>>    }
>
> This has been one of the more annoying functions for me until I now realized that the empty line is removed if I just continue writing the closing brace. This makes it slightly more complicated to implement, but I've tried to emulate that here:
>
> https://ci.appveyor.com/project/rainers/visuald/build/1.0.84/job/63qb4wph5jbq0w43/artifacts

Wow. Thanks, you're awesome! :D From what it feels like you're not the biggest fan of Visual Studio. Would you recommend something else for D?

On 25.10.2016 16:06, Heisenberg wrote:
> From what it feels like you're not the biggest fan of Visual Studio.
> Would you recommend something else for D?

I'm not a big fan of automatic code insertion adding stuff you have to remove half of the times. You find this in almost every editor.

I don't know a better IDE than VS. I guess others have similar editing features, but there is nothing on par with the VS debugger. I believe we also have the best debugger integration with mago.

On Wednesday, 26 October 2016 at 20:24:42 UTC, Rainer Schuetze wrote:
>
>
> On 25.10.2016 16:06, Heisenberg wrote:
>> From what it feels like you're not the biggest fan of Visual Studio.
>> Would you recommend something else for D?
>
> I'm not a big fan of automatic code insertion adding stuff you have to remove half of the times. You find this in almost every editor.
>
> I don't know a better IDE than VS. I guess others have similar editing features, but there is nothing on par with the VS debugger. I believe we also have the best debugger integration with mago.

Guess I've yet to come to hate it myself then. :P

Another thingie. Can anything be done about those tags in the tooltips? https://s14.postimg.org/44g9cu4k1/Capture.png I understand they should make the titles bold, but they don't seem to be doing what they're supposed to. Yet there should be a way to highlight the needed parts, as the editor does so automatically whenever you type in the arguments for a function (I highlighted the 'highlighted' part).