digitalmars.D - Neovim autocompletion using deoplete
- landaire (17/17) Feb 20 2016 I wanted to drop by with a link to something I've been working on
- NVolcz (2/5) Feb 20 2016 This is well worthy the announcement group and reddit :-)
- Andrei Alexandrescu (2/8) Feb 21 2016 Thanks! I'll put it on social media on Monday. -- Andrei
- maik klein (7/25) Feb 21 2016 Good job, but could you also explain why do you think its better
I wanted to drop by with a link to something I've been working on for a few days: deoplete-d [1]. If anyone uses Neovim with deoplete [2] this plugin will add asynchronous autocompletion for D utilizing DCD. It's pretty basic right now but I've found it better than using dutyl. Issues are expected but as long as dcd-client and dcd-server are in your $PATH nothing should break terribly (there are options to set these manually but I haven't bothered to actually test them). Some notes since I'm missing docs: - By default it'll auto-start dcd-server and kill the process when nvim exits - If your buffer has a parent directory `src` or `source` then that directory will be added to DCD's import paths, otherwise the buffer's parent dir is added Demo: https://gfycat.com/ImprobableSecondhandAmericanwarmblood [1] https://github.com/landaire/deoplete-d [2] https://github.com/Shougo/deoplete.nvim
Feb 20 2016
On Saturday, 20 February 2016 at 22:04:57 UTC, landaire wrote:Demo: https://gfycat.com/ImprobableSecondhandAmericanwarmblood [1] https://github.com/landaire/deoplete-d [2] https://github.com/Shougo/deoplete.nvimThis is well worthy the announcement group and reddit :-)
Feb 20 2016
Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail erdani.org> On 02/21/2016 01:44 AM, NVolcz wrote:On Saturday, 20 February 2016 at 22:04:57 UTC, landaire wrote:Thanks! I'll put it on social media on Monday. -- AndreiDemo: https://gfycat.com/ImprobableSecondhandAmericanwarmblood [1] https://github.com/landaire/deoplete-d [2] https://github.com/Shougo/deoplete.nvimThis is well worthy the announcement group and reddit :-)
Feb 21 2016
On Saturday, 20 February 2016 at 22:04:57 UTC, landaire wrote:I wanted to drop by with a link to something I've been working on for a few days: deoplete-d [1]. If anyone uses Neovim with deoplete [2] this plugin will add asynchronous autocompletion for D utilizing DCD. It's pretty basic right now but I've found it better than using dutyl. Issues are expected but as long as dcd-client and dcd-server are in your $PATH nothing should break terribly (there are options to set these manually but I haven't bothered to actually test them). Some notes since I'm missing docs: - By default it'll auto-start dcd-server and kill the process when nvim exits - If your buffer has a parent directory `src` or `source` then that directory will be added to DCD's import paths, otherwise the buffer's parent dir is added Demo: https://gfycat.com/ImprobableSecondhandAmericanwarmblood [1] https://github.com/landaire/deoplete-d [2] https://github.com/Shougo/deoplete.nvimGood job, but could you also explain why do you think its better than in dutyl? I currently also use nvim with dutyl(dcd, dscanner, fmt) and youcompleteme and I haven't run into any issues. Is it possible to filter autocompletions based on the type? Like modules, struct alias, enum etc?
Feb 21 2016
On Sunday, 21 February 2016 at 13:36:26 UTC, maik klein wrote:Good job, but could you also explain why do you think its better than in dutyl? I currently also use nvim with dutyl(dcd, dscanner, fmt) and youcompleteme and I haven't run into any issues.As Dutyl's author, I can think of few things: 1) Dutyl requires the user to run DCD in the background. It provides helpers to start and stop the DCD server, but it's still up to the user to run them. I did not want to start DCD automatically when I have no way of closing it when the user exits Vim. deoplete-d is running the DCD server as a Python subprocess, so it can fully control it's lifetime. 2) Dutyl is running dcd-client synchronously and parses it's output in the main Vim process, which freezes Vim. The freezes are very short - DCD is very fast and there is not much to parse - but they still exist. deoplete-d, on the other hand, is using the deoplete framework to do this asynchronously, so the completions seem instantaneous. This is mainly an illusion - they should take about the same time(OK, maybe a bit faster - after all, Python is faster than VimScript), and they only feel faster because they are done asynchronously and there are no freezes, but I can see how it improves the UX.
Feb 21 2016
On Sunday, 21 February 2016 at 13:36:26 UTC, maik klein wrote:Good job, but could you also explain why do you think its better than in dutyl? I currently also use nvim with dutyl(dcd, dscanner, fmt) and youcompleteme and I haven't run into any issues. Is it possible to filter autocompletions based on the type? Like modules, struct alias, enum etc?Sorry, I didn't mean to say it's objectively better than dutyl but it's been working better for me. dutyl has some solid features that this plugin does not have such as calltip completion (simple enough to add), finding ddoc, and finding declarations. As Idan pointed out, this fits my own workflow a little better since I don't have to manually start/stop dcd-server and I've found that it's a little more reliable with triggering completions (although this may have been a misconfiguration on my end). Currently you cannot filter autocompletions based on the type but that might be easy to add depending on what you mean.
Feb 21 2016
On Sunday, 21 February 2016 at 18:34:42 UTC, landaire wrote:On Sunday, 21 February 2016 at 13:36:26 UTC, maik klein wrote:No offense LoL. People who have time to get offended by hearing their project is inferior to another project, should better use that time to improve that project of them! At any rate, programming(any kind of engineering actually) is the art of tradeoffs. I could add these features to Dutyl, but then I'll have to add more requirements, which is something I don't want to do.Good job, but could you also explain why do you think its better than in dutyl? I currently also use nvim with dutyl(dcd, dscanner, fmt) and youcompleteme and I haven't run into any issues. Is it possible to filter autocompletions based on the type? Like modules, struct alias, enum etc?Sorry, I didn't mean to say it's objectively better than dutyl but it's been working better for me. dutyl has some solid features that this plugin does not have such as calltip completion (simple enough to add), finding ddoc, and finding declarations. As Idan pointed out, this fits my own workflow a little better since I don't have to manually start/stop dcd-server and I've found that it's a little more reliable with triggering completions (although this may have been a misconfiguration on my end). Currently you cannot filter autocompletions based on the type but that might be easy to add depending on what you mean.
Feb 21 2016
On Sunday, 21 February 2016 at 19:46:50 UTC, Idan Arye wrote:No offense LoL. People who have time to get offended by hearing their project is inferior to another project, should better use that time to improve that project of them!I'm not sure where I said or how you got the idea I was offended, but thanks for the encouragement.
Feb 21 2016
On Sunday, 21 February 2016 at 22:56:23 UTC, landaire wrote:On Sunday, 21 February 2016 at 19:46:50 UTC, Idan Arye wrote:Sorry, I thought my English was better than that... I meant "not offense taken"...No offense LoL. People who have time to get offended by hearing their project is inferior to another project, should better use that time to improve that project of them!I'm not sure where I said or how you got the idea I was offended, but thanks for the encouragement.
Feb 22 2016