To centralize the entire user feedback I decided to put up an extra page for it.
So please feel free to leave recommendations, ideas, hints to buggy things we didn’t notice while developing etc in the comments section down below!
If you want to chat with us in an IRC, join our #d.mono-d channel @irc.freenode.net!
A bug tracker is located over here.
Note that there’s a special issue tracker exclusively for the code completion-related stuff!
If you want to contribute some code, just fork our repo at https://github.com/aBothe/Mono-D and send us a pull request.
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Hello, i am getting not clickable file tabs. In such situation helps using Alt+ or restarting IDE.
I installed monodevelop.x86.Master.tar.xz. I loaded a solution
and there is no text in the editor. There is a tab with the file
title. This worked ok in version 3.0.3.2. Everything else looks
great so far.`
There are plenty of issues with gtk and that editor unfortunately..can’t immediately help there :/
The no text in editor result was run on Netrunner, with both Gnome and KDE desktop varieties. I gave it a try on Linux Mint with Cinnamon desktop and the problem is gone.
I set up all of the tools (Xamarin Studio 4.0.8, Windows 8 x64) for D, and the project builds successfully when I run a console application. However, when I press the “play” button, the external console is blank. What can I do here?
Also when just hitting “Execute without debugger”? Okay, there’s no debugger for native apps on windows, but this isn’t what it’s supposed to do, obviously. I’m gonna try it on my own now.
I’m sorry Alex, it was the program I was running… I should have provided input. Beginner’s error
Thanks for the quick reply though, and this is, by far, the best IDE option available for D!
Oh okay, nevermind, anyway, for further issues, please tell me!
Hello, This is a kind of feature request:
It would be nice if “private:” “public:” would be a folding source such as when we use the syntax “private{}” “public{}”.
I’m using Xamarin Studio 4.0.8 with Mono-D 0.5.2.5 under WIndows 7 64bit system,
When I open a D project, I get this error:
Does mono-d support win64?
Hi, is this the entire stack trace dump? I need at least a code location where it was thrown at – or a hint to some code location. Could you find it out, please?
Was it occuring first with the release of 0.5.2.5, or was it also happening with older releases? If so, you can always downgrade to that older version via http://mono-d.alexanderbothe.com/repo
Yes, Win64 is supported, of course!
Sorry I didn’t post the whole trace. It was in the system at my office, and now I’m back home for weekend, so I’ll post it next Monday. I don’t know whether it’s ok with older versions, as I was setting up a new Windows system and everything was new (before that I was using win32 and linux and everything works fine).
I’m having the same issue and filed an issue in github. I have copied the whole stack trace there.
Okay, as I wrote on github already, it seems to be caused by the recent switch to .Net v4.5 – I’ll try to downgrade now, then it should work again.
Hi I got a little problem, I think it’s the Mono IDE.
when I try to make these symbols ” ~ ” or ” ^ ” It won’t show, is there a way to fix this?
because i can’t write this line of code in mono.
string[] names;
names ~= “Jumaji”;
names ~= “Jumper”;
Hi, Right-Click the editor and change the input method to ‘Simple’, that should work
Awesome! Thank you
Is there any way to put in a path to import libraries? I see the section for including stuff for code completion, but not to give it a search path for when it looks for my .lib files.
I wasn’t thinking about creating an explicit lib path field back then..just hack the extra linker options and put in a reference
When I try write two dot chars. It always use first item in autocompletion list. For eg.: I try to write someArray[0 .. $] but I get:
someArray[0 abstract.abstract. $]. I remember there has been some option in monodevelop before version 4.0, but now I cant find it.
Open the MonoDevelop options -> D -> Check “Enable suggestive completion mode”
Thx a lot, I try almost everything, but not this one
Problem is, gdc being the beast that it is, isn’t compatible with the -L-l command line flag.
gdc just wants e.g. -lgphobos2 rather than dmd’s -L-lgphobos2. So for linux, it’s probably necessary to support both of these syntaxes.
Good to know, thank you for the hint! I haven’t installed gdc tbh but I gotta see how to do a ‘special’ treatment for gdc then..is it also the case for ldc?
Can you use rsp file to compile project in Windows (like VisualD)? My project contains too many files to compile in one command line!
You can override the project build command in the project settings, under Custom Commands, or you may use dub for building a project – just open the package.json in MD and it’ll open up a virtual solution/project — it’s a bit buggy still, though.
That’s impractical, that means I must maintain my own build script! I like monod, even without debugging. But I still use visualD, because monod cannot build my project.
I’ve never heard of an rsp file before. Also, are all current compiler front-ends supporting these files? Only then it’d make sense to build a file list in an extra temporary file imho
Yes, I think so. Response file is the common solution for windows command line. http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/Response_Files
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms404301.aspx
Ich bekomme öfters einen Fehler:
einmahl nach ‘”stringliteral”.’ und nach ‘foreach(‘
anschliesend relativ oft, wenn das autocpmplete starten sollte:
System.NullReferenceException: Der Objektverweis wurde nicht auf eine Objektinstanz festgelegt.
bei MonoDevelop.D.Completion.AstUpdater.get_Ast()
bei MonoDevelop.D.Completion.AstUpdater.BeginUpdate()
bei MonoDevelop.D.DEditorCompletionExtension.KeyPress(Key key, Char keyChar, ModifierType modifier)
bei MonoDevelop.Ide.Gui.Content.TextEditorExtension.KeyPress(Key key, Char keyChar, ModifierType modifier)
bei MonoDevelop.D.Formatting.Indentation.DTextEditorIndentation.KeyPress(Key key, Char keyChar, ModifierType modifier)
bei MonoDevelop.Ide.Gui.Content.TextEditorExtension.KeyPress(Key key, Char keyChar, ModifierType modifier)
bei MonoDevelop.Ide.Gui.Content.TextEditorExtension.KeyPress(Key key, Char keyChar, ModifierType modifier)
bei MonoDevelop.Ide.Gui.Content.TextEditorExtension.KeyPress(Key key, Char keyChar, ModifierType modifier)
bei MonoDevelop.Ide.Gui.Content.TextEditorExtension.KeyPress(Key key, Char keyChar, ModifierType modifier)
bei MonoDevelop.Ide.Gui.Content.TextEditorExtension.KeyPress(Key key, Char keyChar, ModifierType modifier)
bei MonoDevelop.Debugger.ExceptionCaughtTextEditorExtension.KeyPress(Key key, Char keyChar, ModifierType modifier)
bei MonoDevelop.SourceEditor.ExtensibleTextEditor.ExtensionKeyPress(Key key, UInt32 ch, ModifierType state)
Die Datei lässt sich nun nitcht mehr im Projekt öffnen:
System.NullReferenceException: Der Objektverweis wurde nicht auf eine Objektinstanz festgelegt.
bei D_Parser.Parser.DParser.ForeachStatement(IBlockNode Scope, IStatement Parent)
bei D_Parser.Parser.DParser.Statement(Boolean BlocksAllowed, Boolean EmptyAllowed, IBlockNode Scope, IStatement Parent)
bei D_Parser.Parser.DParser.BlockStatement(INode ParentNode, IStatement Parent)
bei D_Parser.Parser.DParser.FunctionBody(DMethod par)
bei D_Parser.Parser.DParser.Decl(Boolean HasStorageClassModifiers, IBlockNode Scope)
bei D_Parser.Parser.DParser.Declaration(IBlockNode Scope)
bei D_Parser.Parser.DParser.DeclDef(DBlockNode module)
bei D_Parser.Parser.DParser.ClassBody(DBlockNode ret, Boolean KeepBlockAttributes, Boolean UpdateBoundaries)
bei D_Parser.Parser.DParser.ClassDeclaration(INode Parent)
bei D_Parser.Parser.DParser.Declaration(IBlockNode Scope)
bei D_Parser.Parser.DParser.DeclDef(DBlockNode module)
bei D_Parser.Parser.DParser.Root()
bei D_Parser.Parser.DParser.Parse(Boolean ParseStructureOnly, Boolean KeepComments)
bei D_Parser.Parser.DParser.Parse()
bei MonoDevelop.D.Parser.DParserWrapper.Parse(Boolean storeAst, String file, TextReader content, Project prj)
bei MonoDevelop.D.Parser.FoldingParser.Parse(String fileName, String content)
bei MonoDevelop.SourceEditor.SourceEditorView.RunFirstTimeFoldUpdate(String text)
bei MonoDevelop.SourceEditor.SourceEditorView.Load(String fileName, Encoding loadEncoding)
bei MonoDevelop.SourceEditor.SourceEditorView.Load(String fileName)
bei MonoDevelop.Ide.Gui.LoadFileWrapper.Invoke(String fileName)
Okay, ich guck mal
Hi there,
Just installed Mono-D v0.5.2.2 and now I can’t load or create any Mono-D projects. I get the following error:
Load operation failed. Could not load file or assembly ‘Newtonsoft.Json, Version=4.5.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null’ or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.
Stack trace:
System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not load file or assembly ‘Newtonsoft.Json, Version=4.5.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null’ or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.
File name: ‘Newtonsoft.Json, Version=4.5.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null’
at MonoDevelop.D.Projects.DProject.OnEndLoad()
at MonoDevelop.Projects.SolutionItem.MonoDevelop.Projects.ILoadController.EndLoad()
at MonoDevelop.Projects.Extensions.LoadOperation.End()
at MonoDevelop.Projects.Extensions.ProjectExtensionUtil.EndLoadOperation()
at MonoDevelop.Projects.Formats.MSBuild.SlnFileFormat.ReadFile(String fileName, MSBuildFileFormat format, IProgressMonitor monitor)
at MonoDevelop.Projects.Formats.MSBuild.MSBuildFileFormat.ReadFile(FilePath file, Type expectedType, IProgressMonitor monitor)
at MonoDevelop.Projects.ProjectService.ReadFile(IProgressMonitor monitor, String file, Type expectedType, FileFormat& format)
at MonoDevelop.Projects.ProjectService.InternalReadWorkspaceItem(String file, IProgressMonitor monitor)
at MonoDevelop.Projects.DefaultProjectServiceExtension.LoadWorkspaceItem(IProgressMonitor monitor, String fileName)
at MonoDevelop.Projects.ProjectServiceExtension.LoadWorkspaceItem(IProgressMonitor monitor, String fileName)
at MonoDevelop.Projects.ProjectServiceExtension.LoadWorkspaceItem(IProgressMonitor monitor, String fileName)
at MonoDevelop.Projects.ProjectServiceExtension.LoadWorkspaceItem(IProgressMonitor monitor, String fileName)
at MonoDevelop.Projects.ProjectServiceExtension.LoadWorkspaceItem(IProgressMonitor monitor, String fileName)
at MonoDevelop.Projects.ProjectServiceExtension.LoadWorkspaceItem(IProgressMonitor monitor, String fileName)
at MonoDevelop.Projects.ProjectServiceExtension.LoadWorkspaceItem(IProgressMonitor monitor, String fileName)
at MonoDevelop.Projects.ProjectService.ReadWorkspaceItem(IProgressMonitor monitor, String file)
at MonoDevelop.Ide.RootWorkspace.BackgroundLoadWorkspace(IProgressMonitor monitor, String filename, Boolean loadPreferences, Boolean reloading)
WRN: Assembly binding logging is turned OFF.
To enable assembly bind failure logging, set the registry value [HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Fusion!EnableLog] (DWORD) to 1.
Note: There is some performance penalty associated with assembly bind failure logging.
To turn this feature off, remove the registry value [HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Fusion!EnableLog].
Any known fix?
Cheers, Trey.
Just install the 0.5.2.3 version. It wasn’t referencing the Newtonsoft.Json assembly
Indentation looks weird in files starting with
#!/usr/bin/rdmd –shebang –main -I. -unittest
Never noticed that. Thank you for the hint
Hi alex,
I have xamarin studio 4.0, and I’m install Mono-D.
but i can’t open .d files. it’s throw an exception below
System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException: Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation. —> System.TypeLoadException: Could not load type ‘Mono.TextEditor.Highlighting.ResourceStreamProvider’
do you have any solution?
thanks
ups, sorry, I think flamaros already ask about this issue.
Hello, I had left two comments a few days ago about a problem of folding. It seems to append when the parser, detects a false error, so far it always appears when comparing the dereference of a pointer, for example:
if (*AnObjetct !is null) is detected as an error, while syntaxically, we clearly test the ‘non-nullity’ of the dereference of a pointer and not the pointer ‘non-nullity’ (and btw dmd2 compiles it). With ( (*AnObjetct) !is null) your parser accept the expression an the code folding works again.
(win7, XS 4.03, mono-D 0.5.2)
So is it normal that the folding fails one every single error ? (is it an unexpected behaviour of Xs or of your plug-in ?)
Would it be possible to get the false syntax error mentioned above fixed in a future update ?
Thx.
The *asdf !is null issue has been solved a few hours ago – because you weren’t the only one who noticed this issue
Well, I think it’s the initial generation of folding regions that doesn’t work for syntactically invalid code.. afterwards, so after the code has been parsed once, it actually is keeping the fold regions.. Dunno how to handle this.
I can’t open my D files anymore after an updgrade to version 0.5.2.
I am getting this exception :
System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException: Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation. —> System.TypeLoadException: Could not load type ‘Mono.TextEditor.Highlighting.ResourceStreamProvider’ from assembly ‘Mono.TextEditor, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null’.
at (wrapper managed-to-native) System.Reflection.MonoCMethod:InternalInvoke
It’s because you don’t have XamarinStudio 4.0.2 – The guys from Xamarin have fucked up the entire releasing procedure on Linux (and partly on Mac) because they’ve increased the Mono version required for launching XS without releasing a newer Mono version on Linux. Unfortunately, there is no other possibility for Linux users to manually build Mono and XS OR you may downgrade Mono-D again.
http://mono-d.alexanderbothe.com/?p=923
Ok
I have a little issue with the data location. It seems neither the solution nor project location files option are used to set the working directory of binary.
I need a way to specify the data location, because I am using a relative path in my code to load resources. Did I miss something?
Uhm, it’s using the binary output folder by default. I haven’t seen a need for manually overriding the current work directory though.
I have some resources for my application I access with a relative path. I can’t put output dir in data folder due to conflict between debug and release binaries, I think moving output dir also move all temp files like *.o files not just the application executable.
If I am able to move only the executable, it will work directly.
Or I may use a parameter when I launch my application from monoD that indicate the data path.
Yes you can – just go to the project options and alter the output path. Then it puts the executable right into that directory. You may enter ../build or so, it’ll be dynamically extended to an absolute path afterwards when building.
Thx a lot.
Hi, when I use extra linker arguments such as -ldl, e.g. the poject file contains
-ldl
dmd will be invoked with “-ldl” instead of “-L-ldl”, which is incorrect
since dmd expects extra linker arguments to be prefixed with “-L” to be identified as such (which should not be necessary in mono-d as they are already identified as linker arguments).
An issue, indeed. Implemented it and gonna upload a patch soon.
Hello there! I’ve been using Mono-D for almost 1 month and I really like it.
My 2 cents of feedback:
-linking library could have just one small improvement. Maybe we could add a “linker library path list” like we have for includes? I know libraries are supposed to be installed in the system folder, but when I’m developing I’d rather have the WIP libraries in my /home/ folder
. Right now I’m manually setting -L option as additional linker command. This ain’t a big issue but maybe something you might consider.
-It took me a while to understand how to enable GDB: I had to install an additional package from repository, so it was really simple. Too bad I spent some time trying to figure out why gdb support was not listed in the Monodevelop Add-In manager
May I suggest? Write somewhere in the “install” or “about” page: «To enable debug, you might need to install an additional package from your linux repository» 
TY so much for this IDE. Without it, I would have never started programming in D
Nope, same problem when I tried in a VirtualBox with Linux Mint 14
Oops, should have been a reply to this comment:
http://mono-d.alexanderbothe.com/?page_id=76#comment-1563
Sorry, the following sentence on the install page, I’m not totally sure about how to do:
“Currently, you need to set the distribution channel back to oneiric in order to access gtk-sharp2.” ?
… since, the command:”sudo add-apt-repository …” does not seem to add anything to /etc/apt/sources.list ? … so then, where can I change the distribution channel?
Ah, never mind, found it!
(sources.list.d/keks9n-monodevelop-latest-quantal.list)
I refered to the repository management UI where you could select the distribution channels of a ppa or so – which should definitely exist when using Mint or Ubuntu
Ist egal ob U ein union oder struct ist. Führt beides zum gleichen Ergebnis.
Ich kümmer mich nachher mal darum.
Erst mal vielen Dank für das tolle Projekt!
Beim Autocomplete scheint es ein Problem mit templates und Arrays zu geben:
struct S {U!(float, 5, 6) u;
}
union U (T, uint CONST1, uint CONST2) {
T[CONST1 * CONST2] _array; // Vermutlich das Problem
}
unittest {
U!(uint, 5, 6) u;
S s;
u. //Autocomplete: alignof, init, mangleof, sizeof, stringof
s.u. //Autocomplete: _array, classinfo
}
Wenn man also “u.” schreibt wird nichts außer “alignof, init, mangleof, sizeof, stringof” vorgeschlagen. Bei “s.u.” scheint aber alles zu funktionieren
Danke für das Feedback!
Hab unions bis dato noch nicht wirklich durchschaut bzw genutzt – wusste damit bislang relativ wenig anzufangen, auch wenn hier der Fehler sicher in der Templateparameter-deduction liegt. Mal gucken, danke für den Bericht!
Hab eben den Code bei mir reingepastet – sowohl bei u. als auch s.u. erscheinen alle items, darunter _array. Hmm. Auf Mono-D 0.5.1.3 hast du schon geupdated? Stehen vor diesem Code noch andere gleichnamige Items oder so?
Hi,
I got Xamarin and Mono-D 0.5.1.3 up running now on Linux Mint 13 (64bit). I can not build anything, not even a simple program like:
import std.stdio;
void main() {
foreach(line; stdin.byLine()) {
writeln("Got input line: ", line);
}
}
The output I get is:
Building: dtest (Debug)
Performing main compilation...
---------------------- Done ----------------------
Build failed. Object reference not set to an instance of an object
Build: 1 error, 0 warnings
(I’m using DMD64 v2.061 … from the ubuntu repos if I recall correctly …)
Lol. Always nice to have a null-ref exception without a stacktrace or some other kind of message :/ – Well as I recently tested the stuff under an x86 Mint 14 it worked fine.
Hmm, well, creating a project and a “solution”, made me able to at least build and run!
Only problem, is that now the “Run > Start Debugging” menu options is greyed out
I’m a bit afraid I might have messed up the debug arguments … although what talks against that is that the debug option is NOT grayed out when I am NOT in an open solution or project!
Anyways, will see if there’s any way to restore the debug argument settings to default. Any hints about how to do that are welcome!
There’s a reset button that even asks you again whether you want to reset the arguments – uhm, I haven’t wondered if it’s possible to run/debug programs without an extra solution for it yet…will see.
Nope. Managed to restore the settings now, but nothing changed. Debug menu item is grey when having a project/solution open.
I’ve got no idea how to fix this, unfortunately.
Yeah, maybe will have to try upgrading to Mint 14
But big thanks for the very quick replies! It is really appreciated, great job! 
have problem with installation mono-d on monodevelop-latest from version 1345013906, on ubuntu 12.04
screenshot http://i076.radikal.ru/1302/a7/49efda55ed89.png
This is because I only support the stable version of MonoDevelop. I recently dropped the support of all kinds of unstable/self-built versions. Please download the new version via the download link on the installation page, unzip the package and start Xamarin Studio via mono (…)/XamarinStudio.exe
Is there a way to silent the annoying messagebox saying app is still running (in console)? I know it’s running (it’s actually waiting for a key to exit) and I’m compiling/running a new one so, yes, close the old one is still running
In which use case is this message box popping up? I’ve never experienced this before
– Oh so you want to recompile your program while the app is still running..erm, dunno how to do this, but I guess it’s rather MonoDevelop-related, because I think that I haven’t built such a notification 
Hmm…I’m getting errors about missing mono dlls when trying to build with the extras and I can’t find a place to get them. Could you please post an older version of mono-d for monodevelop 3.0.3.2?
I think I never released any version for this monodevelop version, sorry.
Ok, thanks anyway. I could have sworn there was a version that worked with it about a month ago.
I cant build a project. I get the error “Build failed, input string was not in a correct format” And code completion doesnt work. Well, it only works for built in types, ect. But nothing from the standard library. I tried reinstalling but it didnt help.
You’re working on Linux or Mac, right? Well I’ve discovered that dmd is strictly enforcing cmd-line argument separators to be exactly one space large. Though I’ve worked on this a month ago I was able to improve many situations of building..but well, probably not all. Could you send me the entire raw build command, please?
Im on windows 7. I hope this is what you wanted. I think i remember having an error like this before but i cant remember why
C:\D\dmd2\src\druntime\import.d is being read as a file.
Building Solution: HelloDWorld (Debug)
Building: HelloDWorld (Debug)
Performing main compilation…
Current dictionary: C:\Users\Kaylan\Documents\HelloDWorld\HelloDWorld
C:\D\dmd2\windows\bin\dmd.exe -debug -gc “main.d” “C:\D\dmd2\src\druntime\import” “C:\D\dmd2\src\phobos” “-odobj\Debug” “-ofC:\Users\Kaylan\Documents\HelloDWorld\HelloDWorld\bin\Debug\HelloDWorld.exe”
Error: cannot read file C:\D\dmd2\src\druntime\import.d
———————- Done ———————-
Build successful.
Build failed. Input string was not in a correct format.
On Win7? Well there’s a double space in between. Anyway it’s not marking the includes as actual includes but normal files. Hmm.
Thanks for the fast reply,
I’ll try with 3.1.0 then, but I’m sorry I don’t know what you mean with “entire code base”.
I built and installed all the mentioned packages normally, without deselecting anything.
MonoDevelop 3.1.0 on Ubuntu 12.04.
Latest Mono-D plugin.
Cannot open any D file:
An error has occured:
The file ‘…hello.d’ could not be opened. Object reference not set to an instance of an object
Details:
System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
at MonoDevelop.D.Parser.DParserWrapper.BuildModuleName (MonoDevelop.Projects.ProjectFile pf) [0x00000] in :0
Okay, let me see
Reinstall Mono-D. Then it might be fixed.
I’m getting the same problem with a different error. Whenever I attempt to open a .d file, I get the error below. I’m running a custom built monodevelop 3.1.0 (with only the core and gdb) on ubuntu 12.10, latest version of mono-d. Any ideas?
System.TypeLoadException: A type load exception has occurred.
at MonoDevelop.SourceEditor.SourceEditorView.RunFirstTimeFoldUpdate (System.String text) [0x00025] in /home/lindenk/monodevelop/monodevelop/monodevelop/main/src/addins/MonoDevelop.SourceEditor2/MonoDevelop.SourceEditor/SourceEditorView.cs:513
at MonoDevelop.SourceEditor.SourceEditorView.Load (System.String fileName, System.Text.Encoding loadEncoding) [0x000d4] in /home/lindenk/monodevelop/monodevelop/monodevelop/main/src/addins/MonoDevelop.SourceEditor2/MonoDevelop.SourceEditor/SourceEditorView.cs:583
at MonoDevelop.SourceEditor.SourceEditorView.Load (System.String fileName) [0x00000] in /home/lindenk/monodevelop/monodevelop/monodevelop/main/src/addins/MonoDevelop.SourceEditor2/MonoDevelop.SourceEditor/SourceEditorView.cs:502
at MonoDevelop.Ide.Gui.LoadFileWrapper.Invoke (System.String fileName) [0x000f8] in /home/lindenk/monodevelop/monodevelop/monodevelop/main/src/core/MonoDevelop.Ide/MonoDevelop.Ide.Gui/Workbench.cs:1126
“A type load exception has occurred.” obviously says that building the Core and Gdb only isn’t sufficient. You definitely need to build the addins too in order to have full functionality.
I get the same error and have installed the latest released versions of mono (3.0.3), mono-addins (0.6.2), mono-tools (2.11), monodevelop(3.1.1), monodevelop-debugger-gdb(3.1.1) as released here:
http://origin-download.mono-project.com/sources/
Mono-D 4.8 worked, though.
MonoDevelop 3.1.1 isn’t but only the latest stable version (3.0.6) OR the master version (3.1.0) [i.e. downloaded from github] is supported. And even then you do have to build the entire code base, not only the core and gdb.
Thanks for the fast reply,
I’ll try with 3.1.0 then, but I’m sorry I don’t know what you mean with “entire code base”.
I built and installed all the mentioned packages normally, without deselecting anything.
PS: Sorry for the out-of-context double-post, you can just delete the other one
It’s been related to Linden’s message because he mentioned that he built the core and the gdb extension only.
Anyway, I’ve tested the latest mono-d release on 3 configurations now: Win7 stable + self built and Linux Mint self built – and on with all configurations it launched flawless.
Im having the same issue in mono-d as in D-IDE, i cant type any text in an editor window without causing the same IndexOutOfRange exception. And also, just like in D-IDE, it only happens if i create a new file in the project and try to type in it. The default file that is created with console projects works just fine. Here is the details readout of the error window. Its the EXACT same thing in D-IDE . Why in the hell is this happening to me?
System.IndexOutOfRangeException: Index was outside the bounds of the array.
at System.String.get_Chars(Int32 index)
at D_Parser.DocumentHelper.GetOffsetByRelativeLocation(String Text, CodeLocation caret, Int32 caretOffset, CodeLocation target)
at D_Parser.Completion.CtrlSpaceCompletionProvider.FindCurrentCaretContext(String code, IBlockNode CurrentScope, Int32 caretOffset, CodeLocation caretLocation, ParserTrackerVariables& TrackerVariables)
at D_Parser.Completion.AbstractCompletionProvider.Create(ICompletionDataGenerator dataGen, IEditorData Editor, String EnteredText)
at D_Parser.Completion.AbstractCompletionProvider.BuildCompletionData(ICompletionDataGenerator dataGen, IEditorData editor, String EnteredText)
at MonoDevelop.D.Completion.DCodeCompletionSupport.BuildCompletionData(Document EditorDocument, IAbstractSyntaxTree SyntaxTree, CodeCompletionContext ctx, CompletionDataList l, Char triggerChar)
at MonoDevelop.D.DEditorCompletionExtension.HandleCodeCompletion(CodeCompletionContext completionContext, Char triggerChar, Int32& triggerWordLength)
at MonoDevelop.Ide.Gui.Content.CompletionTextEditorExtension.KeyPress(Key key, Char keyChar, ModifierType modifier)
at MonoDevelop.D.DEditorCompletionExtension.KeyPress(Key key, Char keyChar, ModifierType modifier)
at MonoDevelop.Ide.Gui.Content.TextEditorExtension.KeyPress(Key key, Char keyChar, ModifierType modifier)
at MonoDevelop.Ide.Gui.Content.TextEditorExtension.KeyPress(Key key, Char keyChar, ModifierType modifier)
at MonoDevelop.Ide.Gui.Content.TextEditorExtension.KeyPress(Key key, Char keyChar, ModifierType modifier)
at MonoDevelop.Ide.Gui.Content.TextEditorExtension.KeyPress(Key key, Char keyChar, ModifierType modifier)
at MonoDevelop.SourceEditor.ExtensibleTextEditor.ExtensionKeyPress(Key key, UInt32 ch, ModifierType state)
It’s because I haven’t tested the new method to get caret offsets enough.. thanks for the report, it’ll be fixed today
Thanks Alex! So hows it coming? I guess ill se an update in the add-in manager right? I wont have to download the mpack again? Anyway no big deal, im just rambling. Im off work now, im board as shit with out a well working D invironment XD.
Ah sorry mate that I haven’t uploaded a new pack yet – I’ve fixed the small bug though – but I’m currently updating the build routines for having better filtering for version/debug conditions..In the mean time, why not create a normal console project and leave at least a comment or something in the main file?
And yes, a comfortable IDE lets one become lazy
[Edit] When you’ve downloaded the mpack file manually you unfortunately need to update it on your own again and again – because it’s a special version for the “older” MonoDevelop version 3.0.4.7 – the current and unreleased version in the source repository is 3.0.5 – so I guess there won’t be that long time until that version will be released.
Anyway, I’ll announce new versions here in the blog, so just check it regularly and everything will be fine
Debug arguments for the compiler toolchain need to include -unittest by default in the appropriate places.
feature request:
preview changes before a refactoring (or show lines where a change will occur; similar to “find references”) to prevent unintended or buggy behavior.
potential bug:
Note that when clicking on “find references”, it only shows references in the current file; even if the symbol is referred in another file (eg: a module level variable, or a static variable inside a class). However I’m pretty sure the info is there since refactoring works in those cases.
Though I recently fixed another breaking bug in symbol renaming this is a good idea, indeed. I thought about doing it before either but couldn’t find the time to do it
feature request: format file (currently doesn’t do anything). It should indent the file according to syntax. Visual D and others support it.
note that the existing indent functionality isn’t very useful: it adds indentation regardless of syntax.
also a feature I’m still working on..
feature request: show mixin value in a tooltip (the mixins should be resolved after compiling the project)
That’s a feature that I’m still working on – some expressions can be parsed already, but most of them are still left todo..especially CTFE, which isn’t implemented at all yet
The installation instructions mention that the include paths on Mac OSX are the same as for linux, i.e. /user/include/… However, if you use the Mac OSX package installer from dlang.org it doesn’t put your includes there. Instead you can find the include source under /usr/share/dmd/src/. The correct include paths are:
/usr/share/dmd/src/druntime/import
/usr/share/dmd/src/phobos
Okay thanks
– well that’s mainly because I’m not working on Mac
I’ve got some problems with templates and build process. Sometimes when I change data inside templated function monodevelop does not recompile other files that use this one… And I need to force a full rebuild. Is it a known bug?
Yes this may happen sometimes, unfortunately. I don’t know how to solve that problem currently, I’ll put it on the todo list
I don’t know if this is a MD issue or if you have power over this:
Adding @safe: or @trusted: or @system: to the file screws up the default indentation. E.g that’s the default indentation I get if write that without pressing any tabs (tabs appear before both braces which shouldn’t be there):
@safe:
void fun()
{
//caret
}
Well, it might be a bug that if you add multiple @attributes, the indentation grows – originally it was intended to indent the code that follows a label or colon-based attribute..I’ll do it later on
Also, this might be related: There’s an extra indentation, when inside a struct or a class, after typing the colon of a label like private: or package: or protected: or public:. Here’s the animation:
[Frame:1]
class MyClass
{
private
}
[Frame:2]
class MyClass
{
private:
}
That’s not at least what I’m used to. E.g in Visual Studio, the exact opposite thing happens (after typing the colon):
[Frame:1]
class MyClass
{
private
}
[Frame:2]
class MyClass
{
private:
}
Until now I assumed that this was the ‘all-time wished’ behaviour. I mean, why not?^^
According to wikipedia, that’s what class looks like:
Partial Class MyClass
Public Readonly Property Name() As String
Get
Return _name
End Get
End Property
End Class
But we can always take a vote.
When it’s come that far that I’ve rewritten the formatting engine entirely, everything will be made configurable for sure
If you’ve got a cool and clean concept of how to reformat the entire document efficiently by using the abstract node tree, I ask you to post it here!
I’d like to make a low-priority improvement request: The parser doesn’t seem to recognize the syntax of lambdas if you omit the argument parentheses. E.g.
immutable values = // () // parentheses omitted here
{
int[10] valuesTmp;
foreach (i, ref value; valuesTmp)
{
value = i;
}
return valuesTmp;
}();
Okay, it probably confuses the {} expression with a struct initializer. Will implement that today
It’s fixed now. Just reinstall Mono-D tomorrow or so and the error will be gone
Thanks, that was fast.
I just installed fresh MonoDevelop 3.0.3.5 and Mono-D 0.4.1.2. When I try to open any .d source file there’s an error:
The file ‘D:\Documents\Projects\Test\Test\main.d’ could not be opened. Could not load file or assembly ‘ICSharpCode.NRefactory, Version=5.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=d4bfe873e7598c49′ or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.
This error is known. Due to another internal change of library version numbers I’m forced to use the latest beta versions of NRefactory, i.e. Version 5.0.0.0 – so the only solution is to build MD on your own, or wait for the next MD beta release, or remain at your current Mono-D version – have a look to http://mono-d.alexanderbothe.com/repo – there you’ll find couple of older versions. Sorry for any inconvenience :-/
Thanks, I chose to build MD 3.1.0. Seems to work fine now. To anyone interested, use the instructions found there: Building MonoDevelop
NOTE: In building using MSBuild, I had to make a few changes to main\winbuild.bat file, so that it read:
“C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\MSBuild.exe” Main.sln /property:Configuration=DebugWin32 /property:Platform=x86
Just some feedback on the code completion. I was experimenting with coding an app using the derelict3 libraries, and while the IDE grabbed all of the sdl values and functions flawlessly, it also put them before more important things like int.
Would it be possible to change the matching algorithm so that typing int results in an autocomplete of int rather than GL_MAX_TRANSFORM_FEEDBACK_INTERLEAVED_COMPONENTS?
I think the problem might be case sensitivity…
Thanks for the great work!
Sorry but unfortunately I don’t have got any access to that part of the completion framework :/ – lol, in D-IDE it selects ‘int’ automatically but in MonoDevelop it’s taking the big GL_… alias. I even don’t know where to start to change something related to this issue. You may file an issue either on xamarin or on the issue tracker – but it’ll be handled with very low priority in any way though.
Anyway, thanks for the feedback – and for any further issues, just visit the bug tracker and file a report
After the update to 4.1.1 I receive this error during the project-making:
Erstellen fehlgeschlagen. Can’t create project output directory bin/Release original exception:
System.UnauthorizedAccessException: Access to the path “//bin/Release” is denied.
at System.IO.Directory.CreateDirectoriesInternal (System.String path) [0x00000] in :0
at System.IO.Directory.CreateDirectory (System.String path) [0x00000] in :0
at System.IO.DirectoryInfo.Create () [0x00000] in :0
at (wrapper remoting-invoke-with-check) System.IO.DirectoryInfo:Create ()
at MonoDevelop.Projects.Project.OnBuild (IProgressMonitor monitor, MonoDevelop.Projects.ConfigurationSelector configuration) [0x00089] in /Users/builder/data/lanes/monodevelop-lion-monodevelop-3.0.3-branch/3d53e136/source/monodevelop/main/src/core/MonoDevelop.Core/MonoDevelop.Projects/Project.cs:419
Any suggestions?
Okay, now MonoDevelop crashes immediately after opening a D project saying:
System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
at D_Parser.Resolver.TypeResolution.TypeDeclarationResolver.Resolve (D_Parser.Dom.MemberFunctionAttributeDecl attrDecl, D_Parser.Resolver.ResolverContextStack ctxt) [0x00000] in :0
at D_Parser.Resolver.TypeResolution.TypeDeclarationResolver.ResolveSingle (ITypeDeclaration declaration, D_Parser.Resolver.ResolverContextStack ctxt) [0x00000] in :0
at D_Parser.Resolver.TypeResolution.TypeDeclarationResolver.Resolve (ITypeDeclaration declaration, D_Parser.Resolver.ResolverContextStack ctxt) [0x00000] in :0
at D_Parser.Resolver.TypeResolution.TypeDeclarationResolver.Resolve (D_Parser.Dom.PointerDecl pd, D_Parser.Resolver.ResolverContextStack ctxt) [0x00000] in :0
at D_Parser.Resolver.TypeResolution.TypeDeclarationResolver.ResolveSingle (ITypeDeclaration declaration, D_Parser.Resolver.ResolverContextStack ctxt) [0x00000] in :0
at D_Parser.Resolver.TypeResolution.TypeDeclarationResolver.Resolve (ITypeDeclaration declaration, D_Parser.Resolver.ResolverContextStack ctxt) [0x00000] in :0
at D_Parser.Resolver.TypeResolution.TypeDeclarationResolver.HandleNodeMatch (INode m, D_Parser.Resolver.ResolverContextStack ctxt, D_Parser.Resolver.AbstractType resultBase, System.Object typeBase) [0x00000] in :0
at D_Parser.Resolver.TypeResolution.TypeDeclarationResolver.HandleNodeMatches (IEnumerable`1 matches, D_Parser.Resolver.ResolverContextStack ctxt, D_Parser.Resolver.AbstractType resultBase, System.Object TypeDeclaration) [0x00000] in :0
at D_Parser.Resolver.TypeResolution.TypeDeclarationResolver.ResolveIdentifier (System.String id, D_Parser.Resolver.ResolverContextStack ctxt, System.Object idObject, Boolean ModuleScope) [0x00000] in :0
at D_Parser.Resolver.TypeResolution.TypeDeclarationResolver.Resolve (D_Parser.Dom.IdentifierDeclaration id, D_Parser.Resolver.ResolverContextStack ctxt, D_Parser.Resolver.AbstractType[] resultBases, Boolean filterForTemplateArgs) [0x00000] in :0
at D_Parser.Resolver.TypeResolution.TypeDeclarationResolver.Resolve (ITypeDeclaration declaration, D_Parser.Resolver.ResolverContextStack ctxt) [0x00000] in :0
at D_Parser.Resolver.ASTScanner.UFCSCache.parseThread (System.Object pcl_shared) [0x00000] in :0
at System.Threading.Thread.StartInternal () [0x00000] in :0
Interestingly MonoDevelop was able to create a bin/release folder just seconds bevor the first crash. I think the project config file is corrupted. No time to investigate this further.
Is there a better feedback / bugtracking solution for mono-d?
Do you still use your gmail account @Alex? Haven’t seen you there for a while!
I’m mostly online on g+ – we better discuss this on the chat
Hello! Sorry for my English!
I have a some bug:
I “./configure make make install” MonoDevelop with GDB supporting (3.1.0 version of MonoDevelop). After this I try to install mono-d and get this error:
http://rghost.ru/39801538
My OS: XUbuntu 12.04 (x86_64).
What can I do?
Hi,
There are some probably some build errors that occurred during building MonoDevelop. Could you check the build log please? Or are there other errors, perhaps during the ./configure script execution?
It obviously seems that the CSharp Addin is broken somehow. nevertheless, this shouldn’t be that interfering with a Mono-D installation – just try to install it, if you need MonoDevelop for D development only
This is a log of ./configure.
http://pastebin.com/fbYZc12V
I believe, this will help
ah, before building – have you updated the submodules of the monodevelop repo? so
git submodule init
and
git submodule update
. Then you should be able to build everything completely
It seams that it is not necessary to add an additional repository URL to install mono-d on a mac (Mountain Lion – Mono-D version 3.0.3.5) anymore.
Just select “Gallery -> All repositories” at the Add-in Manager and you’ll find the “D Language Binding”.
Sorry, I meant MonoDevelop version 3.0.3.5 – not mono-D -.-’
Yepp, but check the D options dialog right now – is it showing? There’s just been some Mono.Cairo confusion about that – that’s a reason I have to publish it on a second repository for Windows
You mean the D options at the mono develop’s “other” settings menu? Yep, everything seams to be in place. I was able to configure mono-D to compile and run my first D samples!
There is a typo on installation page http://mono-d.alexanderbothe.com/?page_id=9#insta
http://mono-d.alexanderbothe.com/ResourceCompier.zip
->>
http://mono-d.alexanderbothe.com/ResourceCompiler.zip
Ah okay, thx for the hint, fixed it already
Hi Alex. In the installation page you mention that the include paths for mac os and linux are:
/usr/include/d/dmd/druntime/import
/usr/include/d/dmd/phobos
I don’t know about mac, but on my linux distribution (Ubuntu 12.04, DMD 2.059) the paths are:
/usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/dmd/druntime/import
/usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/dmd/phobos
Note: I’m using the 64 bit version of the compiler (I guess that’s why it’s in “x86_64″). Maybe you could mention the difference for the 32 bit and 64 bit dmd in the installation page.
Sure why not putting these paths into the manual though I think everyone should get the “druntime/import” and “phobos” thing
Hi,
Is there some way in mono-D to use rdmd + compiler switches instead of dmd?
I prefer to use rdmd because it figures out what files actually need to be compiled, instead of simply compiling all files included in the project (some of which might be broken but not used in the project at all).
Also, how do I get mono-D to suggest methods from the current project for code completion?
Thanks
Hi,
1) basically you could reconfigure the compiler configuration so it rather executes rdmd with one argument only (just see the “One Step build” arguments) – it is possible, and I also would like to create a preset so I’ll make it possible to use rdmd by default.
Thanks for the idea! – I currently can’t want to say how this is made exactly, I’ll do it later on then.
2) Suggest methods? It’s mostly a problem with incomplete and recently updated module caches..gotta see what’s wrong there. Will do it later on, I’m currently focusing on improving other stuff
This is seems like a great plugin so first of all thank you for creating it. However in MonoDevelop 3.0.3 on Mac I’m getting a fatal error with the plugin causes the entire program to crash. Any solutions would be appreciated.
System.InvalidOperationException: out of sync
at System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary`2+Enumerator[D_Parser.Dom.DMethod,D_Parser.Resolver.ResolveResult].VerifyState () [0x00000] in :0
at System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary`2+Enumerator[D_Parser.Dom.DMethod,D_Parser.Resolver.ResolveResult].MoveNext () [0x00000] in :0
at D_Parser.Resolver.ASTScanner.UFCSCache.FindFitting (D_Parser.Resolver.ResolverContextStack ctxt, CodeLocation currentLocation, D_Parser.Resolver.ResolveResult firstArgument, System.String nameFilter) [0x00000] in :0
at D_Parser.Resolver.TypeResolution.UFCSResolver.TryResolveUFCS (D_Parser.Resolver.ResolveResult firstArgument, D_Parser.Dom.Expressions.PostfixExpression_Access acc, D_Parser.Resolver.ResolverContextStack ctxt) [0x00000] in :0
at D_Parser.Resolver.TypeResolution.ExpressionTypeResolver.Resolve (D_Parser.Dom.Expressions.PostfixExpression_Access acc, D_Parser.Resolver.ResolverContextStack ctxt, D_Parser.Resolver.ResolveResult[] resultBases, IExpression supExpression) [0x00000] in :0
at D_Parser.Resolver.TypeResolution.ExpressionTypeResolver.Resolve (D_Parser.Dom.Expressions.PostfixExpression ex, D_Parser.Resolver.ResolverContextStack ctxt) [0x00000] in :0
at D_Parser.Resolver.TypeResolution.ExpressionTypeResolver.Resolve (IExpression ex, D_Parser.Resolver.ResolverContextStack ctxt) [0x00000] in :0
at D_Parser.Resolver.TypeResolution.TypeDeclarationResolver.Resolve (D_Parser.Dom.TypeOfDeclaration typeOf, D_Parser.Resolver.ResolverContextStack ctxt) [0x00000] in :0
at D_Parser.Resolver.TypeResolution.TypeDeclarationResolver.Resolve (ITypeDeclaration declaration, D_Parser.Resolver.ResolverContextStack ctxt) [0x00000] in :0
at D_Parser.Resolver.TypeResolution.TypeDeclarationResolver.HandleNodeMatch (INode m, D_Parser.Resolver.ResolverContextStack ctxt, D_Parser.Resolver.ResolveResult resultBase, System.Object typeBase) [0x00000] in :0
at D_Parser.Resolver.TypeResolution.TypeDeclarationResolver.HandleNodeMatches (IEnumerable`1 matches, D_Parser.Resolver.ResolverContextStack ctxt, D_Parser.Resolver.ResolveResult resultBase, System.Object TypeDeclaration) [0x00000] in :0
at D_Parser.Resolver.TypeResolution.TypeDeclarationResolver.ResolveIdentifier (System.String id, D_Parser.Resolver.ResolverContextStack ctxt, System.Object idObject, Boolean ModuleScope) [0x00000] in :0
at D_Parser.Resolver.TypeResolution.TypeDeclarationResolver.Resolve (D_Parser.Dom.IdentifierDeclaration id, D_Parser.Resolver.ResolverContextStack ctxt, D_Parser.Resolver.ResolveResult[] resultBases, Boolean filterForTemplateArgs) [0x00000] in :0
at D_Parser.Resolver.TypeResolution.TypeDeclarationResolver.Resolve (ITypeDeclaration declaration, D_Parser.Resolver.ResolverContextStack ctxt) [0x00000] in :0
at D_Parser.Resolver.ASTScanner.UFCSCache.parseThread (System.Object pcl_shared) [0x00000] in :0
at System.Threading.Thread.StartInternal () [0x00000] in :0
I bet it’s another racing-condition bug where it tries to build up a resolution cache but wants to enum through the array at the same time – let me handle that. Is it occurring after opening your project/launching MD, right?
[Edit] Just reinstall. It should be fixed now. Thanks for the feedback!
Thanks Alex. I’ll check it this morning.
Good work so far! Also, if you ever have a chance to, another feature your could add would be compatibly with this – http://www.dsource.org/projects/visuald . I wouldn’t mind opening my D projects in visual studios when I’m using windows and in monodevelop when I’m using linux.
Indeed a nice idea, will ask Rainer if there’s something like that possible later on.
Can you get D code templates (code snippets) working? I’ve tried Options -> Code Templates -> Add code template in Group: D, Mime: text/x-d and while the snippet is selectable through Edit -> Insert Template… It doesn’t get created. There’s an error:
Error in text editor extension chain
at MonoDevelop.Ide.CodeFormatting.CodeFormatter.OnTheFlyFormat(Document doc, Int32 startOffset, Int32 endOffset)
at MonoDevelop.Ide.CodeTemplates.CodeTemplate.FillVariables(TemplateContext context)
at MonoDevelop.Ide.CodeTemplates.CodeTemplate.InsertTemplateContents(Document document)
…
I’ve never used that feature, but let me see if I can (at least partly atm) make it work
[Edit] How can I try to use it / where is the button / what addon do I have to install? Can’t find it anywhere in MonoDevelop 3.1.0
No add-ons required, I’m using MonoDevelop 3.0.3.2, where it’s Tools -> Options -> Text Editor -> Code Templates and there’s a button Add for adding a code snippet. I’ll try installing version 3.1 to see if it’s different.
Just reinstall the addin, it should be fixed now
Marvellous! Thanks a lot for such a quick support.
There’s one big defect now though, which is that undo doesn’t work correctly once a snippet has been inserted (it’s messed up even after you’ve written something manually after the snippet was expanded).
One smaller problem is that the custom snippets don’t show in the code completion window that opens automatically. But other than that it works as expected: you write the shortcut for your snippet (code completion window says “no matches”), press tab twice (that’s the trick) and your snippet gets inserted in place of the shortcut.
I also noticed that it’s not restoring the templates I created recently, after a MD restart – so I assume that (except the missing listing in the completion window) this entire feature was left a bit unattended during the last couple of months.
It’s all pretty much fixed now in MD 3.0.3.2
Cool then
I have been keeping an eye on the updates. Using XP sp3, MonoDevelop 3.0.2 and D v0.4. I can compile and run a D program one time. If I try ctrl F5 a second time after termination of the first MonoDevelop stops running and needs ctrl alt del. All my compiler toolchains are set per spec.
Hmm, it’s working on Win7 and probably everywhere else. Will try it on an XP vm now.
[Edit] No, it’s working, tried it several times with version MD 3.0.3.1 – and it always built/executed it.
Could it be your antivirus software is interfering with the build process?
Hi,
I’ve installed everything correctly, but continue to get:
Build successful.
Build failed. The system cannot find the file specified
huh?
Created new default project (win32 gui). Console project seemed to work fine.
I’ve set up the toolchain correctly, it’s the standard
C:\D\dmd2\windows\bin
I’m confused. any help is appreciated.
So far i like what i see.. it is better than VisualD since that does not support VisualAssistX.
Hi,
Same question from my side, uhm it probably is a missing resource compiler – you can get it from http://mono-d.alexanderbothe.com/ResourceCompiler.zip. After you’ve put it e.g. into the \bin directory you must specify its path in the Win32 Resource compiler settings – I know that it sounds awkward but it actually seems that I lastly forgot to mention this point in the installation tutorial :/
Yup, that did the trick. Thanks.
Hi Alex –
Thanks for producing this tool. Unfortunately I’ve run into a problem right from the start which I was hoping you could clarify.
I’ve gotten the latest version of Mono-d, and selected a new console project with the simple “hello world” project. When I try to build this in MonoDevelop I get the following Build output:
“”"
Building Solution: testmd (Debug)
Building: testmd (Debug)
Performing main compilation…
Build Project
Current dictionary: /Users/ctsa/devel/dplay/testmd/testmd
dmd -c “main.d” -of”/Users/ctsa/devel/dplay/testmd/testmd/obj/Debug/main.o” -I”/Users/ctsa/opt/i386-darwin/dmd/src/druntime/import” -I”/Users/ctsa/opt/i386-darwin/dmd/src/phobos” -gc -debug
———————- Done ———————-
Build successful.
Build failed. ApplicationName=’dmd’, CommandLine=’-c “main.d” -of”/Users/ctsa/devel/dplay/testmd/testmd/obj/Debug/main.o” -I”/Users/ctsa/opt/i386-darwin/dmd/src/druntime/import” -I”/Users/ctsa/opt/i386-darwin/dmd/src/phobos” -gc -debug ‘, CurrentDirectory=’/Users/ctsa/devel/dplay/testmd/testmd’
“”"
If I paste the dmd commandline printed after “Build failed” into the terminal it succeeds and exits 0.
If I just run “dmd main.d’ on the auto-generated file it succeeds without any trouble. Not sure what’s going wrong.
Useful info:
OS X 10.6.8
MonoDevelop 3.0.2
Mono-D 3.9.6
dmd 2.053
Thanks for any help!
-Chris
Hi,
It probably wasn’t able to find dmd via environment variables – (I assume the dmd executable is located under /Users/ctsa/opt/i386-darwin/dmd/bin/somewhere?). So all you need to do is to put put the bin path to the dmd executable into the Binary Path field you can find in the D settings.
It might work then
Ah-hah, I just set toolchain bin path and that did it. Thanks for the pointer.
Hi, I’m new to D coming from c# and this project seems to be making things alot easier. Good work.
One issue I have found so far. Library projects need to have the -lib flag applied to the linker as well as the compiler. Otherwise it fails with “undefined reference to `_Dmain’”
I think there is an option to link it to a static library – Just open the project settings -> “Build” -> “Compiling” tab ->”Linking” tab -> Set “Comile target” to “Static library” and it should be fine
I am unable to use 0.3.9. Every time I add include paths (druntime and phobos) to compiler configuration, monodevelop starts consume all of my memory and I must kill it.
I really’d like to know why this happens – I probably got to investigate a bit.
Anyway it’s not occurring over here! Haven’t noticed an excessive mem consumption anyway – what OS are you using?
[Edit] I just discovered that it’s not even possible to launch MD 3.1 on Ubuntu, lol
I use monodevelop 3.1 from git on Arch linux. And mono-d plugin from your sites repository. And version of DMD is 2.059. I will try to find out whats happen if I have a some spare time
Hmm, I tried to remove all paths, than add them again and now it seems all works correctly. Maybe some problem with old profile of monodevelop or something like this
Awful undefined behaviour – I really detest it :/, but it’s kinda cool that it’s working again now
No debugging in Windows?
It’s all for nothing without the debugger…
I will not repeat myself again entirely – but: No decent debugging without decent abstract information about the code you write/debug!
Link to resource Compiler on Installation page is borked. Should point to http://mono-d.alexanderbothe.com/ResourceCompiler.zip, does point to http://mono-d.alexanderbothe.net/ResourceCompiler.zip
Oops, surely happened during moving this blog from sourceforge to my private site – Thx for that
Hi, not sure if it’s a bug or something I’m doing wrong with my project setup, but one of my projects no longer has working Go to Declaration functionality. The context menu option just doesn’t appear any more. This used to work for this project, and as far as I can see everything else is set up the same in thise one project as it is in all my other projects.
Any idea what Go to Declaration relies upon in order to work? I’ve got all my include paths set in the Build > Compiling > Includes section…
Thanks!
Hmm, that sounds very strange. This command simply needs to resolve the currently hovered code, so like when getting an in-editor tool tip, this already has been done.
Is this issue occurring in all your project’s codes?
I’ve currently found a problem with template functions – so perhaps your code symbol also was a template function – which reasoned everything then
Just to get back to you about this: it’s fine now. Not sure what happened, I think I rebooted my machine and it just started work again! Weird.
Hi Alex,
Some more thoughts about the document outline pad!
1. I noticed that it doesn’t distinguish static members (of modules / classes). It’d be very cool if it did… (I’m surprised it doesn’t actually, as C# has the static keyword as well.) I’m not sure if another overlay could be used though, as it’d have to co-exist with the protection attribute overlays. I guess one way might be to duplicate the icons for member, method, alias, constant and put a little S or something in the bottom right corner…?
2. I thought another really excellent feature for D would be to denote (via little icons) whether function parameters are out (right pointing arrow?) / ref (up & left pointing arrow? little star?) / lazy (zZZ ?
) / etc.
Hey Alex, I was just having a play around at implementing this, just for fun.
I got as far as adding a new image type in InitImages() in DCodeCompletionSupport.cs, and modifying the behaviour of the GetNodeIcon() method in the same file. So far this all works fine.
The problem comes with adding a new icon png. I’m just trying to use the alias icon for now, as a test, and editting the MonoDevelop.D.addin.xml file.
What I find is that if I enter a line like this, using one of the built-in icons, it works as expected (ref parameters of functions are displayed with the “literal” icon):
However when I do something like this, using a MonoD specific icon, no icon whatsoever appears for ref parameters:
(I’ve also tried various combinations of using “resource=” and/or “icon=”, to no avail…)
There must be something simple I’m missing… I can’t really find any MonoDevelop documentation on how this is supposed to work. Any ideas?
Ok it removed my xml code there… :-/
I’ll see if I can trick it by inserting spaces.
This works:
This doesn’t work:
Sigh. One last try, without angle brackets.
Works:
StockIcon stockid = “d-ref-parameter” icon = “res:element-literal-16.png” size=”Menu”/
StockIcon stockid = “d-ref-parameter” icon = “res:res:MonoDevelop.D.icons.element-alias-16.png” size=”Menu”/
I’ve sent you a how-to to your sociomantic mail address^^
Thanks
Hi,
mono-d is almost perfect. I really like it. But one thing drives me crazy
. When I start writing for eg. ‘string’ key word. Auto completion doesn’t work as I expected. Because in hints window there is not string and when i write string and then put space it select first word from hints window. Here is video of my problem http://dlang.cz:8080/out.ogv
Indeed, “I see”
– thanks for your feedback!
Since the completion isn’t that reliable, it’s recommended to switch off the forced insertion after a delimiter has been typed – so at first you’ll be able to type string without letting the completion engine overwrite it with the ‘selected’ completion item.
Secondly, ‘string’ should be available – have you entered the paths to your compiler installation? If not, please have a look on the Installation page! There you’ll find instructions how to do this – and then, string, Object, size_t as well as other items defined in object.di should be available as completion options
Yes, I have wrong path to my compiler installation. Thanks
I’m not sure how much control you have from MonoD over what’s displayed in the Document Outline pad, but another small feature I thought that would be nice would be to display aliases more clearly. They’re currently displayed in exactly the same way as a class member (with a kind of blue circle next to them). Even just displaying an = symbol next to the name or something would make the outline easier to read.
Perhaps it’d be better to have a dedicated icon for that.. do you have one?
Good idea!
Well I’ve just knocked up a very basic one… it might do for a start (until someone comes along who has better graphic design skills!
How should I send it your way?
On the topic of the document outline pad again… I noticed that the icon for consts doesn’t display the little protection overlays (private / protected / package). Would be nice if it did
Lol there weren’t dedicated icons for private/protected/internal literals .. had to create them, but it should be better now
Excellent, thanks a lot!
Very nice plugin – but I’ve got two problems.
Look at this simple program:
import std.stdio;
void main()
{
writeln(10);
}
In release mode it works fine, however, in debug mode it get an error message saying:
Error: Build failed – check build output for details (D_Test)
What does this mean?
Also, when I go to Project->Project Options (not solution options)->Build->Building->Libraries and click browse to find the selected library, when I click “add” to add it to the project, nothing happens! It is not added.
Third, sometimes my program is correct but it says there’s an error (I am talking about release mode because as I mentioned above debug is not working). When I select “build” again, it says “build successful” but when I run it, it runs the previous version! It means that it didn’t compile the new one at all :/
Any help would be appreciated.
Guys, it can sound funny, but what about to start from the main stuff: where to download MonoDevelop itself?!
Are you using Windows/Mac? http://monodevelop.com
http://mono-d.sourceforge.net/wp/wp-admin/post.php?p=101
Are you using Linux? There’s a small link to an article on top of the download page which describes where you can download/build the latest beta version
Hi Alex, another small suggestion on the topic of comments. The current behaviour, when is pressed with the cursor inside a /* */ comment block, is that a new line is inserted (as expected) and the characters ” * ” are inserted at the start of the new line.
When writing comments, I find myself constantly having to delete these ” * ” characters, as the comment style we’re using doesn’t include a * on each line of a block comment.
Again, I don’t know if this behaviour is part of Mono-D or if it’s part of MonoDevelop itself, but it’d be nice if it was overrideable / could be deactivated.
Oh weird, my comment didn’t come out properly there… What I attempted to write was:
“The current behaviour, when ENTER is pressed”
Ok I created a new option – just reinstall the addin again
That’s a big help, thanks!
I’m having trouble with the new “D Source Code > D Format” options not saving. I’ve tried changing them both in the “Edit > Preferences…” menu, and on a per-project basis, but in both cases when I restart MonoDevelop, the D Format options have reset to their default values. Any ideas?
You’re right – the policy options weren’t marked as serializable; now it should work
Thanks!
Hallo Alex,
Make Default funktioniert bei mir nicht. win 7- 64 D binding 0.289. MonoDevelop 2.8.6.4.
GDC konfiguration wird nicht nur Nicht als default gesetzt, auch der Toolchain bin path wird “vergessen” ?reset-ed.. wie das so schoen eingedeutscht heisst.
GDC64, aber das sollte eigentlich keine Rolle spielen.
Oder … Sind die Toolchain Settings Project bezogen ? ..Was nicht optimal waere.
Es scheint bei deiner Installation die Settings nicht abzuspeichern – was relativ eigenartig ist, denn bei mir funktioniert alles, und Beschwerden durch andere gab es bis jetzt auch nicht.
Vielleicht hilft MD mit Adminrechten starten?
Hi Alex,
Compiler Toolchain / Make default does not save the configuration. (Win 7) Nevertheless, I was able to use GDC64 in MonoD and this is already something!
On Ubuntu I could not find the Tools/Options… Menu .. Any hints ?
A question regarding the parser. Are you still using the CoCo/R – ATG generated parser ? (Guess that is what you hace used (more or less) in D-IDE)
And beside : Damned good job!
Bjoern
Works for me™ – bei mir speichert der Make Default-Click.
Unter Ubuntu hab ich MD zuletzt vor ein paar Monaten getestet. Aber selbst unter Linux Mint 12 läuft eigentlich alles ordentlich.
Ich verwende nach wie vor meinen eigenen Parser, der nicht generiert wurde – ist flexibler und schneller – zumal der Parser auch nur einen Bruchteil der CodeCompletion ausmacht
Hi Alex, thanks for that! Good to see it’s not too hard to modify that kind of behaviour. Using the DDoc /** */ seems like a much more sensible default for D.
It’s not quite what I had in mind however. I’m using pre-formatted headers (following tango’s style), like this:
/*******************************************************************************
copyright: Copyright (c) 2004 Kris Bell. All rights reserved
license: BSD style: $(LICENSE)
version: Mar 2004: Initial release$(BR)
Dec 2006: Outback release
author: Kris
*******************************************************************************/
So what I was imagining was that it’d be nice if there was an option in the Standard Header settings to simply switch off all automatic formatting of the standard header. So it’d literally just paste the user-entered text as-is at the start of each file, without wrapping it in comment “tags” or appending anything.
I guess this would require adding an extra tick box to the settings — something like “Insert as block comment” (defaults to true) — I don’t know how easy / hard that is to do?
As I said though, the new behaviour in 0.2.8.9 makes more sense for D anyway.
Just reinstall Mono-D. I created a checkbox in the D source code formatting options – the commenting can be disabled now
Excellent, it works like a charm, thanks!
Hello, another feature idea…
I tried out the ‘standard header’ feature of MonoDevelop recently, which inserts a pre-defined header text at the start of each module. Unfortunately it always inserts a // before each line, which kind of messes up the headers we use (which are DDoc /** */ block comment format).
I don’t know if the code for this is deep in MonoDevelop, or if it’d be possible to change this behaviour in Mono-D, but it’d be really cool if there was a way to switch off the prepending of // on each line of the standard header.
Cool why not. Will see if I can do this.
Indeed, it’s been a very good idea – it’s in the 0.2.8.9 version
So I thought I heard you mention parsing User Types for type-highlighting. Is that true? That would be awesome if it is
well the algorithm is implemented in d-ide mostly (I wonder if it works well with aliased types, too, still got to test it), just got to port it to monodevelop’s interface
Sorry, as long there’s that strange publishing error when I try to link in a special drawing library it’ll not be possible to establish semantic highlighting
Thanks a lot for this, very nice! (It’s a relief to find another D capable IDE except Eclipse.)
One slightly odd point I’ve noticed is that syntax highlighting is still active inside DDoc /** */ comment blocks. So, for example, in /** this is a class */ the words “this”, “is” and “class” will be highlighted.
Hi, thanks, yeah I’ve also noticed it – I’ll note it on the todo list
Just got the update this morning and found the /** */ comments fixed now — thanks for that!
Hi. I’ve removed & reinstalled it and it is now perfect. Thank you!
Thanks for the application, it is very nice.
For some reason, MonoDevelop crashes when I right click the Document Outline panel.
I just want to join with all the compliments – Mono-D has the best auto-completion of all other IDEs. As that is one of the most important features for me (together with refactoring which I would put as #1 feature of any modern IDE). Speaking about refactoring – I know it is pretty complicated thing to do, but do you have any plans to work on it?
Hi! Thanks for the positive feedback!
Define ‘Refactoring’
– reformatting code, implement interfaces and similar stuff, I guess. Yes, these features are on the to do list already, but nevertheless they’re on very low priority. Perhaps you want to want to depict your expectations of ‘good’ refactoring in Mono-D’s issue board? ( https://github.com/aBothe/Mono-D/issues )
Recommendations, ideas and of course bug reports are appreciated!
Thanks you for this project. D needs more coverage, and adding good support to existing IDEs (like Visual Studio, Eclipse, Monodevelop), is very important. I really like Monodevelop, but why not Anjuta? You think it is dead, or less portable?
Looking forward for more updates and features!
Thanks for your feedback!
To let me answer your question with one word only: Anjuta? Please know that I never heard about it. It also seems that it’s got Linux support only, so neither for Windows nor Mac — and as D also supports compilers on multiple platforms, D IDEs should do the same – so I guess there will be no Anjuta binding (developed by me). But thanks for the idea anyway!
Thanks for the great effort!
I have been wondering if there are plans to fix the format of the text in the tooltips. Uhmm, for example, the description for std.algorithm shows like this:
$(BOOKTABLE ,
$(TR $(TH Category) $(TH Functions)
)
$(TR $(TDNW Searching) $(TD $(MYREF balancedParens) $(MYREF
boyerMooreFinder) etc etc..
Thanks again.
Thanks for the feedback!
I thought about at least removing the $(ASDF …) tags – but as far as I don’t know how to draw html code in tooltips it’ll remain like this.
Besides, I guess this is a very low-priority problem – but thanks for not complaining about some more directly visible features that are buggy
Removing them would be great for now. But I think some of these tags need to be substituted for some responding values.. I’m not totally sure.
Anyway, thank you for the rapid reply
This is pretty cool. Are there any plans to integrate unit testing so that we can run unit tests without having to add the -unittest option manually?
Sure. Cool, perhaps it could be done by creating an extra project configuration by default – so as Debug or Release, why not have Unittest?
And also, it might be a good idea to run the compiled executables from the solution or project root. So the working directory would be the same for every target, which means that run-time resources like config files etc. don’t have to be copied or symlinked to every target-specific directory, thus making the process a little less manual.
Indeed! I just imitated MonoDevelop’s standard behaviour – but perhaps making this optional could make things easier!
Hello again, Alex. I had to remove ‘dai.’ from the module declarations in addition to adding -I.src, in order to get Mono-D to compile my source. The modules aren’t in src/dai, but rather in src/, and that seems to have been what caused the problem.
I’ve realised that it might be a bad idea to specify packages that doesn’t actually have a corresponding directory in the project path, so i’ve commented out every instance of “dai.” in the modules for now. However, it might still be a good idea to fix this, in case some other projects do it this way.
With that said, Thanks! This seems like a decent cross-platform solution.
Have you tried building the files manually? Is it working then (with the “dai.” prefix)?
Thanks anyway for the feedback!
I used VisualD for several months before trying out Mono-D, and it didn’t complain about the prefix, which means that dmd allows it.
By the way Alex, where did you get the parser? It looks hard-coded – I guess it’s Top-Down right? Does it have issues right now?
I’m asking, because I believe it is much better to use LR-parser. With it there is much less hard-coding, more strictness, less bugs and etc. I have some background in LR-parsers – so if you ever consider to switch to it – I might assist.
The entire parser and DOM system is written by me. Isn’t a hard coded parser more efficient than e.g. a generated one? Isn’t ‘custom’ code running faster with less overhead than wrapped stuff?
If there was an other / faster(!) way to analyze or even to ‘jump’ through D code rapidly, I’d really appreciate your help!
IMO, D’s complexity also doesn’t leave space for huge improvements concerning the lexer, the parser, even concerning symbol resolvers or code formatters.
But nevertheless – if there’s a better/more efficient way to write a CLR-based D parser (which included C#, F# or even ‘raw’ IL(!) to write a parser — it could be very cool
) with less performance loss – please tell me!
Well, to start with do you know what is LR-parser? You probably should – it works with pre-generated tables.
You write a grammar file, then pass it to LR-table generator, then this LR-table is written to a simple binary file (or XML does nto matter in this case). Then you write a simple LR-parser – which is maximum of say 300 liens of code. LR-parser input then is a token stream. Internally it analyses this stream token by token according to the LR-table (which we have previously generated). It’s output is simply – yes/no (in trivial case). Attaching different services to it – so that it build DOM simultaneously and emits appropriate error messages is just a matter of routine.
Writing LR-table generator can be a challenge – but actually it is uniform – and does not depend on particular language. The only input to it is grammar. It is possible to try 3rd party LR-table generators or write your own.
The point is that all the boilerplate hard-coded “if/else” soup vanishes, because this essential logic is not in your code anymore – it is in this little LR-table. This approach works faster as well.
Previously, I was successfully able to write all that is described (including my own LR-table generator) for C.
will this parser be compatible to the existing DOM? If so – why hesitate any longer?
I haven’t seen your DOM yet. But anyway – I had plans on porting my LR-parser to C# and I think I’m gonna do it now. Maybe your project might benefit from it. The only thing I need is D2 grammar, which I can’t find anywhere (as a single consistent document) – do you have the exact specification? If, yes could you please send me it by e-mail or post a link to it. You could also send me your Skype Id so that we are able to keep in touch, if you wish ofc
Best regards
I took everything from http://d-programming-language.org/lex.html and all its subpages – I know, it seems to be very incomplete and leaky, but in the end I was able to work with it!
Are you logged in at #d? I’m alex|D-Guy over there – if you want to add me on skype, I’m a.bothe2010
It would be really nice to see more project configuration options. Particularly in controlling output. I see object files are all put in the same place, regardless of configuration. Executables are placed in bin/Configuration. All of this is hardcoded, it seems. If I put -of as an option on the link step, it’s ignored.
At a minimum, object file output location and executable/library output location should be configurable as project options.
Sure, I just skipped spending more time on working out a more detailed config to concentrate on more editor-related things – I’ll note it on the todo list
Omgomg… this is awesome.
It seems Mono-D has a lot more features that VisualD… not to knock monodevelop (which is cool), but I think there are a lot more VisualStudio users out there…
Would it be possible to contribute any of this work to VisualD to any extent? It really needs a lot of love.
Of course is Visual Studio a nice IDE – but it’s windows only. My primary target is it to provide OS-independent D editing support – so imo, using Mono/.Net as a basis is the easiest way to handle this.
(Whereas…. since Visual Studio is also .Net based, it could be possible to go on using the commonly used D_Parser library – so VS and MD could profit by the same library… nice idea!)
Im not sure if this is a mono-d, monodevelop, or a personal setup problem but every 2 or 3 project builds, the program hangs when making the 3rd or 4th build and i have to restart monodevelop. I guess ill post this on the monodevelop site also.
I don’t know the exact circumstances of your installation, but building a small test program on my machine works flawlessly – even when building the project several times.
I think i spotted a bug! Check out this example,
auto f = File(“foo.bar”, “r”); < Everything from "r
foo(); < All the
bar(); < Way to
f.write("A"); < A" is highlighted as a single string!
Weird huh? But if i change "r" to any other char, works fine.
Yes, it’s a syntax highlighting issue, as you might see that it ‘thinks’ the “r” is the begin of a wysiwyg string – I hopefully will find a workaround for this – thanks for the feedback!
When I try to build “Hello world” Program, but I receive a warning “Project ‘HelloWorld’ has different ToolsVersion than the containing solution before doing anything. I am a D beginner. But when I use VisualD in Visual Studio 2010, it’s all OK. Is the MonoDevelop’s version or other reasons concerned?
Some informations about my environment:
MonoDevelop 2.8.4.2
Runtime:
Microsoft .NET 4.0.30319.239
GTK 2.16.6
GTK# (2.12.0.0)
Mono for Android not installed
No build info
Operating System:
Windows 6.1.7601.65536
Your project has a different ToolsVersion?
Sorry, but I never heard of such an exception before – such a case is totally new to me.
An other question which may help you:
Is the path to your dmd executable configured right?
If not, you can either
1) Do it by inserting the dmd bin path into the %PATH% environment variable or
2) By setting the “Compiler”/”Console app linker” fields (in the Other > D > Compilers > DMD options) to the respective paths (e.g. C:dmd2windowsbindmd.exe)
Thank you! I did as 2) and it’s ok now! The auto-completion of Mono-D is wonderful.
Is there a forum or something like that? So I can find solutions for general problem and persons interested in Mono-D could discuss there.
Unfortunately there isn’t any dedicated forum for Mono-D. But anyway, you can post issues&bugs on https://github.com/aBothe/mono-d/issues
Awesome project! Works great on my Fedora 16 box with MonoDev 2.8.1. The code completion and project management are exactly what I needed to really start converting from C# to D. Can’t thank you enough.
There is one thing I would like added, though. The ‘string’ keyword (I know it’s not a true keyword) is not highlighted as such. It makes my code ugly
Is there plans for user defined keywords list (like the new Visual-D release)? Or could you simply add ‘string’, ‘wstring’, and ‘dstring’ to the keywords list please?
Thanks for the great work!
Thanks!
Keyword entries for Object, (d/w)string have been inserted
Awesome! Thank you!
Btw, is it only me or ctrl+c & ctrl+v is buggy?
When I copy slice of code and want to paste it somewhere…the whole file is getting pasted…
It only occurs when working with D solution.
Some infos about mine env:
MonoDevelop 2.8.2
Build information:
Git revision: 3ad243983f7219d98f534dbcf5731e3a15f77dff-dirty
Build date: 2011-12-01 00:01:58+0000
Operating System:
Linux
Linux d3 3.0.6-gentoo #1 SMP Sun Oct 9 12:00:00 CEST 2011 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU M 450 @ 2.40GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
Runtime:
Mono 2.10.6 (tarball Wed Nov 30 23:28:36 CET 2011) (64-bit)
GTK 2.24.6 (GTK# 2.12.0.0)
Cheers.
On my (Win7) machine everything related to Copypasting works like it should – No issues at all.
This project looks really awesome. I really enjoy monodevelop. I’ve been using Eclipse with DDT before as IDE on Linux but honestly,
Mono-D seems to be very ligthweight when comparing to DDT. Start-up is almost instant… no lags etc.
It’s great! Keep good work!
If I could help somehow to the project please let me know!
Best regards,
Damian Ziemba
Well we are still searching for someone who could bring up some a debugger interface library so it’d be possible to debug D applications under Linux environments. But I guess this would be hard to do because there had to be written an entire library for every single distro, am I right?
But anyway, thanks for the feedback!
Just got MonoDevelopment installed with Mono-D and, so far, holy crap – this is awesome! I’ve been poking through various IDEs with (very) limited success in D, but this one seems to work well. It handles auto-completion and all of that good stuff.
I have one question, or perhaps a request – is there a way to have MonoDevelopment (or Mono-D) provide different coloring for parts of an expression? Right now, this shows as just one color:
Container!(Integer) name;
I don’t know if this is something you can control (I couldn’t find anything in the options), but it’d be great if the types (Container, Integer) were one color, the template syntax was another (!()), and the field name (name) was yet another.
Thank you very much for your positive feedback!
To directly answer your question, yes, it is possible to highlight special code patterns like template instances although I doubt that it would highlight the entire ‘Integer’ part you mentioned. Perhaps the first trailing one after the ‘!’, so like in ‘to!string’.
Furthermore, I already thought about implementing semantic highlighting – which also would highlight all identifiers etc. like VisualStudio does. But since even the guys from SharpDevelop won’t bring up that feature (because it’s primarily VERY resource intensive!), I doubt that it’ll be a feature of Mono-D. (Perhaps you have a fast algorithm which made it possible, I’ll take all offers serious!)
Just a question from my side: Could you please tell how you came to this site?
By a link on “http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?EditorSupport” (http://www.digitalmars.com)