Hello!
I have written my text editor with highlighting, and now I want
to add IDE features to it.
I want to make autocompletion, but not only complete members of
class/struct, but also all functions which maybe used with type,
if the first argument of the function is this type. I.e. in
"a".fromStringz() style instead of fromStringz(a).
For it I will take editable now sources, add to it lines like
this:
foreach(d; __traits(allMembers, std.string))
{
if (is(typeof(mixin("\"abc\"."~d~"()"))))
pragma(msg, "\"abc\"."~d~"()" );
}
So it will print all methods which can be called for strings as
"abc".function().
And I want to compile this file with options "-c -o-".
The problem that compilation for files with avarage count of
imports may take e.g. 7 seconds..
7 seconds is too long to wait autocompletion.
But compiler really do this "task" with autocompletion requests
very fast.
And I think how to implement the next:
Add the task to some other file task.d. import it to the first
file with mixin(import("task.d")). Change syscall open() to my
function which if will see that it opens "task.d" waiting the
time when user will ask autocomplete (press Ctrl-space), and then
write the task to "task.d" and continue execution of compiler...
The problem that I see in this conception is that seems not
possible write such import which will be imported only when
compiler starts handle templates and simultaneously in the place
where will be accessed all local variables of a function.
Any ideas?
