I'm pretty frustrated by this Wiki page:

nhttp://prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?EditorSupport

It gives some pretty misleading information. Almost all of the listed editors do not support D in any meaningful sense -- most can't even lex D correctly.
Personally I'm not that interested in highlighting of keywords. But a fundamental requirement is that nested /+ +/ comments and `wysiwg quotes` are handled correctly.

* CodeBlocks can't lex D.
* SciTE doesn't include D in their list of supported languages, despite what the D wiki says.
* Descent works, but it's attached to Eclipse.
* The recently-released UNA also seems to be Java-based bloatware.
* Sublime Text would be perfect, but is not free.

Someone, please tell me there's an editor (not IDE) which can lex D!
(And let's stop advertising the ones which can't!)

"Don" wrote
> I'm pretty frustrated by this Wiki page:
>
> nhttp://prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?EditorSupport
>
> It gives some pretty misleading information. Almost all of the listed
> editors do not support D in any meaningful sense -- most can't even lex D
> correctly.
> Personally I'm not that interested in highlighting of keywords. But a
> fundamental requirement is that nested /+ +/ comments and `wysiwg quotes`
> are handled correctly.
>
> * CodeBlocks can't lex D.
> * SciTE doesn't include D in their list of supported languages, despite
> what the D wiki says.
> * Descent works, but it's attached to Eclipse.
> * The recently-released UNA also seems to be Java-based bloatware.
> * Sublime Text would be perfect, but is not free.
>
> Someone, please tell me there's an editor (not IDE) which can lex D!
> (And let's stop advertising the ones which can't!)

I use vim, but you really need to like vi to use it :)

But I've never really had issues with the syntax highlighting and indentation support.

-Steve

Steven Schveighoffer schrieb:
> "Don" wrote
>> I'm pretty frustrated by this Wiki page:
>>
>> nhttp://prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?EditorSupport
>>
>> It gives some pretty misleading information. Almost all of the listed editors do not support D in any meaningful sense -- most can't even lex D correctly.
>> Personally I'm not that interested in highlighting of keywords. But a fundamental requirement is that nested /+ +/ comments and `wysiwg quotes` are handled correctly.
>>
>> * CodeBlocks can't lex D.
>> * SciTE doesn't include D in their list of supported languages, despite what the D wiki says.
>> * Descent works, but it's attached to Eclipse.
>> * The recently-released UNA also seems to be Java-based bloatware.
>> * Sublime Text would be perfect, but is not free.
>>
>> Someone, please tell me there's an editor (not IDE) which can lex D!
>> (And let's stop advertising the ones which can't!)
> 
> I use vim, but you really need to like vi to use it :)
> 
> But I've never really had issues with the syntax highlighting and indentation support.
> 
> -Steve 
> 
> 

In case of anonymous classes the indention does not work for me in vim.
I use a combination of gvim and kate.

Don wrote:
> I'm pretty frustrated by this Wiki page:
> 
> nhttp://prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?EditorSupport
> 
> It gives some pretty misleading information. Almost all of the listed editors do not support D in any meaningful sense -- most can't even lex D correctly.
> Personally I'm not that interested in highlighting of keywords. But a fundamental requirement is that nested /+ +/ comments and `wysiwg quotes` are handled correctly.
> 
> * CodeBlocks can't lex D.
> * SciTE doesn't include D in their list of supported languages, despite what the D wiki says.
> * Descent works, but it's attached to Eclipse.
> * The recently-released UNA also seems to be Java-based bloatware.
> * Sublime Text would be perfect, but is not free.
> 
> Someone, please tell me there's an editor (not IDE) which can lex D!
> (And let's stop advertising the ones which can't!)

The emacs mode works pretty well.  Nested comments definitely work properly.  But there is a change needed to the cc-mode it's based on to get "static if"s to nest line up properly.

--bb

Don wrote:
> I'm pretty frustrated by this Wiki page:
> 
> nhttp://prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?EditorSupport
> 
> It gives some pretty misleading information. Almost all of the listed
> editors do not support D in any meaningful sense -- most can't even lex
> D correctly.
> Personally I'm not that interested in highlighting of keywords. But a
> fundamental requirement is that nested /+ +/ comments and `wysiwg
> quotes` are handled correctly.
> 
> * CodeBlocks can't lex D.
> * SciTE doesn't include D in their list of supported languages, despite
> what the D wiki says.
> * Descent works, but it's attached to Eclipse.
> * The recently-released UNA also seems to be Java-based bloatware.
> * Sublime Text would be perfect, but is not free.
> 
> Someone, please tell me there's an editor (not IDE) which can lex D!
> (And let's stop advertising the ones which can't!)

I use JEdit a lot.  It's Java-based, but it code-highlights for D and the indentation isn't that bad.  It could be better, but it's free, works, and it's certainly smaller than the Eclipse footprint (much less the Eclipse+Descent footprint!)

On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:37:05 +0400, Don <nospam@nospam.com.au> wrote:

> * SciTE doesn't include D in their list of supported languages, despite what the D wiki says.
>

I just downloaded it and it has decent D support.
The only feature missing is a wysiwyg string support.

Don wrote:
> I'm pretty frustrated by this Wiki page:
> 
> nhttp://prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?EditorSupport
> 
> It gives some pretty misleading information. Almost all of the listed
> editors do not support D in any meaningful sense -- most can't even lex
> D correctly.
> Personally I'm not that interested in highlighting of keywords. But a
> fundamental requirement is that nested /+ +/ comments and `wysiwg
> quotes` are handled correctly.
> 
> * CodeBlocks can't lex D.
> * SciTE doesn't include D in their list of supported languages, despite
> what the D wiki says.
> * Descent works, but it's attached to Eclipse.
> * The recently-released UNA also seems to be Java-based bloatware.
> * Sublime Text would be perfect, but is not free.
> 
> Someone, please tell me there's an editor (not IDE) which can lex D!
> (And let's stop advertising the ones which can't!)
> 
> 

kate works fine for me.

Quotes used to be broken, but this has been fixed recently.

 --downs

Chris R. Miller wrote:
> Don wrote:
>> I'm pretty frustrated by this Wiki page:
>>
>> nhttp://prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?EditorSupport
>>
>> It gives some pretty misleading information. Almost all of the listed editors do not support D in any meaningful sense -- most can't even lex D correctly.
>> Personally I'm not that interested in highlighting of keywords. But a fundamental requirement is that nested /+ +/ comments and `wysiwg quotes` are handled correctly.
>>
>> * CodeBlocks can't lex D.
>> * SciTE doesn't include D in their list of supported languages, despite what the D wiki says.
>> * Descent works, but it's attached to Eclipse.
>> * The recently-released UNA also seems to be Java-based bloatware.
>> * Sublime Text would be perfect, but is not free.
>>
>> Someone, please tell me there's an editor (not IDE) which can lex D!
>> (And let's stop advertising the ones which can't!)
> 
> I use JEdit a lot.  It's Java-based, but it code-highlights for D and the indentation isn't that bad.  It could be better, but it's free, works, and it's certainly smaller than the Eclipse footprint (much less the Eclipse+Descent footprint!)

Does it lex correctly?
Graying out nested comments is the #1 thing I want in a text editor. I'm appalled that so few of the editors advertised as being for D can actually satisfy such a trivial requirement.

Don wrote:

>> I use JEdit a lot.  It's Java-based, but it code-highlights for D and the indentation isn't that bad.  It could be better, but it's free, works, and it's certainly smaller than the Eclipse footprint (much less the Eclipse+Descent footprint!)
> 
> Does it lex correctly?
> Graying out nested comments is the #1 thing I want in a text editor. I'm appalled that so few of the editors advertised as being for D can actually satisfy such a trivial requirement.

I reckon most D modes that exist were created by making minor tweaks
to existing C++ modes, and C++ doesn't have nested comments so the
infrastructure isn't there.  It was one of the harder things to figure
out how to get working with the emacs D mode.

--bb

On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 4:11 PM, Don <nospam@nospam.com.au> wrote:
>>
>> I use JEdit a lot.  It's Java-based, but it code-highlights for D and the indentation isn't that bad.  It could be better, but it's free, works, and it's certainly smaller than the Eclipse footprint (much less the Eclipse+Descent footprint!)
>
> Does it lex correctly?
> Graying out nested comments is the #1 thing I want in a text editor. I'm
> appalled that so few of the editors advertised as being for D can actually
> satisfy such a trivial requirement.
>

I reckon most D modes that exist were created by making minor tweaks to existing C++ modes, and C++ doesn't have nested comments so the infrastructure isn't there.  It was one of the harder things to figure out how to get working with the emacs D mode.

(testing mail gateway for the first time, so this may not work...)

--bb