pulsar-ide-d package

Barebones language support for D via serve-d.

Installation

Prerequisites

pulsar-ide-d expects serve-d to be in your PATH, or else to be told exactly where it is via the package settings. Download a stable release of serve-d and extract it to a known location, preferably on your PATH.

serve-d itself expects to find dmd in your PATH to be able to deliver autocompletion; you can install it as part of the main D language download on the official website.

DCD

DCD is in charge of providing autocompletion and is not bundled with serve-d. serve-d will show you a notification if it fails to detect an installation of DCD or considers it to be outdated. You may click on Download DCD to trigger an automatic download and installation of DCD to one of these locations:

• On Linux, it will install into ~/.local/share/code-d/bin or ~/.code-d/bin.
• On macOS, it will install into ~/.code-d/bin.
• On Windows, it will install into %APPDATA%\code-d\bin.

If you prefer to manage DCD yourself, you must ensure dcd-client and dcd-server are present in your PATH. A future enhancement will allow you to specify the paths to these executables if they are not in your PATH.

In rare cases, you may want to force an update of DCD; you can do so via the package settings (Advanced → Update DCD). Reload the window after changing this setting.

Steps

1. Install pulsar-ide-d from the Pulsar package repository.
2. Either ensure the serve-d binary is in your PATH or specify the full path to the serve-d executable in the package settings.
3. Reload the window (via the Window: Reload command) or relaunch Pulsar.

What does it do?

After you’ve installed this package, install any of the following packages to get special features.

Preferred

Start with these packages; they’re all builtin, actively maintained, and/or built exclusively for Pulsar:

• autocomplete-plus (builtin; no installation needed)
  • See autocompletion options as you type
• symbols-view (builtin; no installation needed)
  • View and filter a list of symbols in the current file
  • View and filter a list of symbols across all files in the project
  • Jump to the definition of the symbol under the cursor
• linter and linter-ui-default
  • View diagnostic messages as you type
• intentions
  • Open a menu to view possible code actions for a diagnostic message
  • Open a menu to view possible code actions for the file at large
• pulsar-outline-view
  • View a hierarchical list of the file’s symbols
• pulsar-refactor
  • Perform project-wide renaming of variables, methods, classes and types
• pulsar-find-references
  • Place the cursor inside of a token to highlight other usages of that token
  • Place the cursor inside of a token, then view a find-and-replace-style “results” panel containing all usages of that token across your project

Other

For other features that don’t have equivalents above, the legacy atom-ide packages should also work:

• atom-ide-definitions
  • Jump to the definition of the symbol under the cursor
• atom-ide-outline
  • View a hierarchical list of the file’s symbols
  • View the call hierarchy for a given file
• atom-ide-datatip
  • Hover over a symbol to see any related documentation, including method signatures
• atom-ide-signature-help
  • View a function’s parameter signature as you type its arguments
• atom-ide-code-format
  • Invoke on a buffer (or a subset of your buffer) to reformat your code according to the language server’s settings