Seems like Apple doesn’t ship clang-format with the Command Line Tools. Right now you have at least three options: Using Homebrew (That’s the way to go) Using prebuild packages Build it yourself Homebrew As user johnhaley81 pointed out, clang-format is now in homebrew: clang-format is now on brew. brew install clang-format Please consider upvoting his … Read more
clang-tidy can make syntactic changes to your code using FIXITS clang-tidy YOUR_FILE.cpp -fix -checks=”readability-braces-around-statements” — COMPILE_OPTIONS Updated: clang-tidy is a bit of a heavyweight tool for this as it needs compile options to parse the file, sadly clang-format (as of v3.9) won’t add braces. COMPILE_OPTIONS would be the include paths etc that you use to … Read more
So, having messed around in the clang format code and made some patches, here’s my two cents: Clang format is based on, parsing the AST using libclang, which basically eliminates all whitespace breaking up the token sequence into “unwrapped lines” which are like “logical” code lines Applying rules / configuration info to sometimes split up … Read more
This is not a “solution”, but a general workaround for preventing clang-format (and other formatters) from removing line breaks. Just add an empty line comment at the end of a line like so: template <typename TChar> [[gnu::always_inline]] // static ptr<TChar> within_limit(ptr<TChar> first, ptr<TChar> last); template <typename TChar, typename FApply, typename… FApplyRest> [[gnu::always_inline]] // static ptr<TChar> … Read more
In newer version, you can surround a section of code with: // clang-format off … // clang-format on
One of the reasons I feel like this should be easier than it is because -output-replacements-xml essentially gives me the answer that I want, it just doesn’t give it to me in an easy to consume way. However, since the output if no replacements are needed is very predictable, parsing the output isn’t too hard. … Read more
Unfortunately, there is no way to apply clang-format recursively. *.cpp will only match files in the current directory, not subdirectories. Even **/* doesn’t work. Luckily, there is a solution: grab all the file names with the find command and pipe them in. For example, if you want to format all .h and .cpp files in … Read more