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

[Alexander Kornienko via cfe-dev]

On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 12:14 AM, Aaron Ballman via cfe-dev <
cfe-dev at lists.llvm.org> 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.


I guess, it should be easy to add it as an external tool. The question is
whether VS supports presenting output of external tools as diagnostics?
Otherwise, a real VS extension would be needed.


> 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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