[cfe-dev] Clang-format / clang-tidy VS plugin

[Zachary Turner via cfe-dev]

Yea, integrating options probably isn't necessary for llvm developers, but
i think it would be *huge* for driving adoption externally. Same with
bundling the tool with the plugin so that it could be distributed
standalone, perhaps even from the vs extensions gallery
On Sun, Aug 14, 2016 at 3:14 PM Aaron Ballman <aaron at aaronballman.com>
wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 6:58 PM, Zachary Turner via cfe-dev
> <cfe-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
> > I was thinking about some ways to improve clang-format, and possibly even
> > add clang-tidy to the list of things our VS plugin supports.  Perhaps
> even
> > merge them into a single plugin.  But you know, I'm a windows person,
> and I
> > want a UI.  I don't want to just click a button and have it use some
> > settings that are on disk that I edited by hand, I'd like to be able to
> edit
> > the settings themselves through a nice UI, like everything in VS.
> >
> > This is kind of difficult if the plugin shells out to an external tool
> > without linking against it, because it doesn't have any knowledge of what
> > specific options and features the version it's calling might support in
> > order to build the appropriate UI to set them.  On the other hand, if it
> > links against the tool, this all becomes very easy, because the plugin
> can
> > share types and data structures with the tool itself.  And it also means
> > that someone could download the plugin without installing LLVM, as a
> > standalone tool, greatly reducing the barrier to entry for people
> wanting to
> > try out the tool.
> >
> > Here's a quick mockup of what my ideal UI would look like and what I
> have in
> > mind: http://imgur.com/a/p3XBv
> >
> > But again, it's hard to maintain this kind of thing if the VS plugin has
> to
> > rely on an external tool to do the formatting, since it would have to
> know
> > about every possible set of options for every version as the software
> > improves.  So in order to do this this way, we'd need to probably build
> > clang-format and/or clang-tidy as a DLL and bundle them with the plugin,
> > which could link against it.
> >
> > Not really asking anyone else to do the work so much as I am asking if
> > people think this would be cool and/or something they'd like to see.
> > Personally I think it would be a great way to get clang-format and
> > clang-tidy onto more peoples' systems, particularly those people who are
> not
> > currently using clang on Windows, since this would be standalone and work
> > out of the box while providing a familiar user interface to what people
> are
> > used to.
> >
> > Thoughts?
>
> I would *love* to see clang-tidy exposed as a plugin within Visual
> Studio. The existing clang-format integration we already have is
> basically the only reason I use clang-format -- I don't want to drop
> into a command line from my editor unless I absolutely have to, so
> integrating clang-tidy makes it far more likely to check code early
> and often. The tight integration of the options with the editor would
> be really nice, but not critical for my particular usage (the defaults
> for both tools are fine for my needs).
>
> ~Aaron
>
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