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diff --git a/docs/ClangFormat.rst b/docs/ClangFormat.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..92d7fc3 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/ClangFormat.rst @@ -0,0 +1,93 @@ +=========== +ClangFormat +=========== + +`ClangFormat` describes a set of tools that are built on top of +:doc:`LibFormat`. It can support your workflow in a variety of ways including a +standalone tool and editor integrations. + + +Standalone Tool +=============== + +:program:`clang-format` is located in `clang/tools/clang-format` and can be used +to format C/C++/Obj-C code. + +.. code-block:: console + + $ clang-format --help + OVERVIEW: A tool to format C/C++/Obj-C code. + + Currently supports LLVM and Google style guides. + If no arguments are specified, it formats the code from standard input + and writes the result to the standard output. + If <file> is given, it reformats the file. If -i is specified together + with <file>, the file is edited in-place. Otherwise, the result is + written to the standard output. + + USAGE: clang-format [options] [<file>] + + OPTIONS: + -fatal-assembler-warnings - Consider warnings as error + -help - Display available options (-help-hidden for more) + -i - Inplace edit <file>, if specified. + -length=<int> - Format a range of this length, -1 for end of file. + -offset=<int> - Format a range starting at this file offset. + -stats - Enable statistics output from program + -style=<string> - Coding style, currently supports: LLVM, Google, Chromium. + -version - Display the version of this program + + +Vim Integration +=============== + +There is an integration for :program:`vim` which lets you run the +:program:`clang-format` standalone tool on your current buffer, optionally +selecting regions to reformat. The integration has the form of a `python`-file +which can be found under `clang/tools/clang-format/clang-format.py`. + +This can be integrated by adding the following to your `.vimrc`: + +.. code-block:: vim + + map <C-K> :pyf <path-to-this-file>/clang-format.py<CR> + imap <C-K> <ESC>:pyf <path-to-this-file>/clang-format.py<CR>i + +The first line enables :program:`clang-format` for NORMAL and VISUAL mode, the +second line adds support for INSERT mode. Change "C-K" to another binding if +you need :program:`clang-format` on a different key (C-K stands for Ctrl+k). + +With this integration you can press the bound key and clang-format will +format the current line in NORMAL and INSERT mode or the selected region in +VISUAL mode. The line or region is extended to the next bigger syntactic +entity. + +It operates on the current, potentially unsaved buffer and does not create +or save any files. To revert a formatting, just undo. + + +Script for patch reformatting +============================= + +The python script `clang/tools/clang-format-diff.py` parses the output of +a unified diff and reformats all contained lines with :program:`clang-format`. + +.. code-block:: console + + usage: clang-format-diff.py [-h] [-p P] [-style STYLE] + + Reformat changed lines in diff + + optional arguments: + -h, --help show this help message and exit + -p P strip the smallest prefix containing P slashes + -style STYLE formatting style to apply (LLVM, Google) + +So to reformat all the lines in the latest :program:`git` commit, just do: + +.. code-block:: console + + git diff -U0 HEAD^ | clang-format-diff.py + +The :option:`-U0` will create a diff without context lines (the script would format +those as well). |