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Welcome to Descent
Descent is an Eclipse plugin that provides an IDE for writing, launching and debugging code in the D programming language from Digital Mars.
Documentation
- Installing the plugin
- Updating the plugin
- Configuring the plugin
- Configuring a project
- Compiling programs
- Running programs
- Debugging programs
Descent tries to mimic JDT, so it's documentation may be useful, although not all of it: http://help.eclipse.org/help32/topic/org.eclipse.jdt.doc.user/gettingStarted/qs-BasicTutorial.htm
Also check out The Forum.
Features
- Syntax highlighting.
- Awesome, flexible formatter.
- Folding.
- Automatic closing of strings, brackets, chars and comments.
- Code templates.
- Syntax errors and some semantic errors are shown with a reg squiggle.
- Autocompletion which writes the imports for you.
- Source on hover (shift+hover).
- Go to definition (ctrl+hover).
- Some compile-time function evaluation (ctrl+shift+hover).
- Graying of inactive code.
- Project Explorer.
- Outline view.
- Automatic generation of documentation comments (Params, Author, etc.).
- Spell checking.
- TODO tasks.
- Ddoc view.
- Highlighting of all occurrences of the current token under the cursor.
- trace.log viewer
- Runs and debugs programs within the IDE.
Here's a list of useful shortcuts, hovers and autocompletions
Supported versions
D 1.x is fully supported.
D 2.x is not supported: you may be able to open the file, but you'll get syntax errors for delimited strings, token strings, enum manifest constants and invariant as attribute.
Future Directions
Now we are focusing in:
- Making the build system.
- Unittesting à la JUnit.
Help us
As always with such an ambitious project, we need help! We're looking for testers, documentation writers, translators, and most of all developers. If you're interested in helping out, check this.
Contact Us
Here's where to reach those responsible for Descent:
- The Forum
- Via #d.descent at irc.freenode.org
- Create tickets for suggestions, improvements, and things that don't work correctly