[cfe-dev] [clang-format] Trying to use libFormat for code indentation

[Sam McCall via cfe-dev]

Cool! We were just chatting over breakfast about inserting a token to
preserve the whitespace :-)
Does this work well in practice with unmatched parens/braces?

Like when typing:
void foo() {
  auto Lambda = [&](int bar) {
     ^

The idea that you disable *all* line collapsing seems like a big hammer, is
it possible to set a property on the dummy token that forces a wrap before
it?

I do wonder whether that makes sense as a top-level option, or whether
libFormat should grow an API to format-while-typing around the cursor:
would take care of inserting/removing the token, setting options about
collapsing lines etc.

Happy to take this discussion to the code review.

On Fri, Oct 12, 2018 at 9:15 AM Ivan Donchevskii <ivan.donchevskii at qt.io>
wrote:

> Hi!
>
>
> I've decided not to wait but to try something myself :)
>
> Check this out - https://reviews.llvm.org/D53072
>
> This fixes some problems for me and I only need to add some string to the
> new empty line not to have indentation removed.
>
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Ivan
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Sam McCall <sammccall at google.com>
> *Sent:* Friday, October 12, 2018 9:04:24 AM
> *To:* Ivan Donchevskii
> *Cc:* clang developer list
> *Subject:* Re: [cfe-dev] [clang-format] Trying to use libFormat for code
> indentation
>
> Hi Ivan,
> We're also interested in as-you-type formatting like indentation for
> clangd.
> (http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/clangd-dev/2018-September/000102.html)
> But I don't think anyone's deeply explored what would be needed from
> libFormat to allow this.
> Cheers, Sam
>
> On Fri, Oct 5, 2018 at 1:31 PM Ivan Donchevskii via cfe-dev <
> cfe-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>
> libFormat and clang-format are great for formatting but I want to use
> libFormat a bit differently - to provide the indentation for the next line
> (inside IDE, when you press CR in code editor).
>
>
> Probably I miss some handy flag which helps with that but so far I've
> found only workarounds to do what I need:
>
>  - add some stupid expression to the new line (something like "a;") to
> force libFormat indent it
>
>  - play with clang-format flags to prevent it from shrinking the new line
> into the previous one
>
>  - set ColumnLimit to the length of the previous line also to prevent
> shrinking
>
>
> All of them work completely unreliably. Also it's often some incomplete
> code in the middle of typing so it might have unfinished expressions.
>
>
> So I want to ask if somebody has/had similar use cases and knows how to
> deal with them before adding some special flag to clang-format and trying
> to solve my issues there.
>
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Ivan
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