ac-dcd

Auto completion for Emacs using the D Completion Daemon (DCD).

Requirements

The auto-complete package must be installed. Also, yasnippet and popwin are recommended.

Installing ac-dcd from MELPA (see below) automatically installs auto-complete if not already installed.

Make sure that the dcd-client and dcd-server binaries are in your PATH. Otherwise, please set the variables dcd-executable and dcd-server-executable using M-x customize.

Usage

Add this to your .emacs / init.el:

    ;;; ac-dcd
    (require 'ac-dcd)
    (add-hook 'd-mode-hook
      (lambda ()
          (auto-complete-mode t)
          (when (featurep 'yasnippet) (yas-minor-mode-on))
          (ac-dcd-maybe-start-server)
          (ac-dcd-add-imports)
          (add-to-list 'ac-sources 'ac-source-dcd)
          (define-key d-mode-map (kbd "C-c ?") 'ac-dcd-show-ddoc-with-buffer)
          (define-key d-mode-map (kbd "C-c .") 'ac-dcd-goto-definition)
          (define-key d-mode-map (kbd "C-c ,") 'ac-dcd-goto-def-pop-marker)
          (define-key d-mode-map (kbd "C-c s") 'ac-dcd-search-symbol)

          (when (featurep 'popwin)
            (add-to-list 'popwin:special-display-config
                         `(,ac-dcd-error-buffer-name :noselect t))
            (add-to-list 'popwin:special-display-config
                         `(,ac-dcd-document-buffer-name :position right :width 80))
            (add-to-list 'popwin:special-display-config
                         `(,ac-dcd-search-symbol-buffer-name :position bottom :width 5)))))

Alternatively,

(add-hook 'd-mode-hook 'ac-dcd-setup)

Which does the same as the code above.

• You can set import paths using M-x customize-variable RET ac-dcd-flags.
• Alternatively, if you're using DUB to manage your project, you can use M-x ac-dcd-add-imports to add import paths of the current project automatically.
• When something is wrong, please, check variables with M-x customize-apropos RET ac-dcd and restart server with M-x ac-dcd-init-server.

Features

• Dlang source for auto-complete
• Function calltip expansion with yasnippet
• Show ddoc with C-c ?
• Goto definition with C-c .
• After goto definition, you can pop to previous position with C-c ,
• Search for a symbol and show the results in a temporary buffer with C-c s

Installation

Install from MELPA or MELPA Stable with:

M-x package-install RET ac-dcd.

Possible Issues

ac-dcd-maybe-start-server only guaranteed to work with one Emacs instance. On systems with pidof, A 2nd Emacs will not attempt to start its own dcd-server and simply talk to the one already running.

TODO

• UTF-8 support is in place. However, UTF-16 and UTF-32 may not work correctly. (Need help!)