News: The SciTE4D text editor 0.17 is underway. Download now (6 Aug 2008)

People on the "D Programming Language" News Group started looking at many editors to see which one was the most useful editor for D. We found SciTE! The "Package" grew to what it is today with lots of integrated utilities written by "D Lauguage " community.

		Customized Syntax highlighting
		AutoComplete: D keywords, module names of Phobos, Tango, DWin...
		Code folding for easy code viewing
		Auto indentation while typing
		Customized building : supported GNU make, Windows bat file and DSSS...
		F1 Help: open Helpfile on the keyword were the cursor is located.
		F7 or Ctrl+F7: building the project (if Makefile,build.bat or dss.conf exists)
		Press F5: Run the Binary
		Ctrl + F5: compile, link, and run the program srcfile
		Alt + D: pops up a list of the declarations in the current file
		Alt + M: pops up a list of modules
		Press F12: search for a declaration with an identifier under the cursor

SciTE4d is a stand alone application. you can figure this out in about 2 minutes.

1. Download and Install SciTE4D Text Editor:
Download now

3. Include path configuration

Open SciTEGlobal.properties, modify seatd.global.include to fit your import path.
The global include path is supposed to be set in scite4d\SciTEGlobal.properties, the first line contain the include paths for libraries that all of your projects use (like Phobos or Tango). It is a list of paths separated by ; for example:

seatd.global.include=c:\dmd\src\phobos;c:\dmd\tango
To change it, modify the line above accordingly and include it in your user options file.

4. building method Configuration

Open ...\ybud.conf, modified the make method to fit your needs.
The default make is Windows port of GNU make(mingw32-make.exe):
make=mingw32-make

You may modified it e.g. make=make to fit your needs.

The default Makefile name is "Makefile":
makefile=Makefile

The default Windows bat file name is build.bat:
batfile=build.bat

You may modified it e.g. "building.bat" to fit you needs.
I recommend you that using dsss to build library, using GNU make to build binary.

5. Click desktop icon to start SciTE4D

1 GNU make example
Open ..\examples\makefile\test.d
press F7 (or Ctrl+F7) to build test.exe
Or press Ctrl+F5 to run test.d directly
press F5 to run test.exe after building

2 Windows bat example
Open ..\examples\bat\test.d
press F7 (or Ctrl+F7) to build test.exe
Or press Ctrl+F5 to run test.d directly
Press F5 to run test.exe after building

3 dsss example (If you have dsss installed)
Open ..\examples\dsss\test.d
press F7 to debug building
Or press Ctrl+F7 to release building
Or press Ctrl+F5 to run test.d directly
Press F5 to run test.exe after building

Authors:
1. SciTE text editor 1.74
2. SEATD for SciTE 0.01.2
By Jascha Wetzel [firstname]@mainia.de
3. D Documentation CHM for DMD 1.027
By Vladimir Panteleev thecybershadow at gmail.com
4. Build tool ybud 0.15
By yidabu

What's New:
Autocomplete up to date with DMD 1.033 and Tango 0.99.7
Added Ctrl+F5 to excute "dmd -run currentFile.d args..."
Added Makefile support
Added build.bat support(Windows)
Added dsss build exampe, bat build example, Makefile build exampe.
"D language" CHM help up to date with D 1.027

Maintainer

SciTE4D Home: http://scite4d.chinese-blog.org
yidabu at gmail dot com