On Thursday, 16 April 2015 at 01:55:09 UTC, rcorre wrote:
Thats great and all but not everyone is autistic enough to
learn the ins and outs of Vim or Emacs...
Visual Studio completion is very interesting as well because
it can read the functions of other third party libraries
automatically. Can ycmd do that?
ycmd is intended to serve as a layer between a
completion/semantic engine (DCD/Dscanner in this case) and an
editor.
Reading third party library functions would be the job of DMD
in this case (which it can do, if the paths are set up
correctly).
The potential advantage of ycmd is better integration of that
completion info within your editor.
At this point, dutyl does a good job, but there are definitely
areas to improve.
Improving dutyl would involve duplicating some of ycmd's logic
in vimscript, while proper ycmd integration would involve
implementing some of dutyl's logic in python.
Some people - myself included - have already asked Brian to make
DCD read the project's import paths from Dub or something. At
first he claimed this is the editor's job - now he seems to be
accepting the idea enough to accept a pull request - but he
doesn't care about it enough to implement it himself.
I won't be doing it either, because Dutyl is already doing this
job and feeding the import paths to DCD, I'm assuming the other
editor plugins also have their solutions for that already, so you
can count their maintainers out. You'll need someone new to have
enough motivation to do it - someone who wants to develop a new
editor plugin(or plugin for ymcd or
https://github.com/quarnster/completion or other stuff like that)
and is willing to contribute to DCD on the way.
A while back, I've looked a bit into integrating Dutyl with
ycmd(http://forum.dlang.org/thread/qsvrvtpqrdvfujahk...@forum.dlang.org?page=2#post-ahwguxayeamrvdczlacu:40forum.dlang.org)
and found out this connection is a waste of time, since I'll have
to reimplement all the relevant parts in Python anyways so there
is no point to make the semantic engine depend on Dutyl.
