request: project-specific settings

[canfoderiskii]

Is there any possiblilty that adding a 'read project-specific setting' feature before processing a file?

Maybe the project-specific setting file is a .clang_complete file as used by vim's clang_complete plugin.

EasyClangComplete can search up from the directory tree for the setting file. If it's found, use it to add parameters passed to clang.

[niosus]

Yep, the possibility is there. :) Thanks for a suggestion. It sounds pretty good. Can you tell me more about how are you about to use it? Is it only the .clang_complete file or do you intend something in addition to it?

The .clang_complete is easy to find and its structure is fairly easy to parse, so I can try to add it this week.

[niosus]

Hey @canfoderiskii I have just pushed a commit with the support for the simple functionality of searching the file .clang_complete up the tree and adding its contents to include list. Can you please try to verify if this is working for you?

If not please tell me what fails and please be specific about the version of sublime text and os you are running. Thanks!

[canfoderiskii]

@niosus Okay, I will update the plugin and test it when I'm not so busy these two days, and i'm using sublime text 3103.

Thank you for the great work.

By the way, for your question about how i would use the new feature, a boolean switch in setting file is preferred. That switch controls whether to use .clang_complete file only.

[canfoderiskii]

@niosus I did a quick test, found a problem.

create a new .c file, in which i have a struct definition & struct variable declaration. When i type in "sturctVariable." or "pStructVariable->", i cannot get auto-completed struct members. If manually call autocomplete via key binding, the sublime text status bar displays "No available completion".

I tried with/without .clang_complete file, or on/off the switch "search_clang_complete_file"/"include_file_folder", cannot solve the problem.

I also tried both syntax, "C" or "C Improved", problem still remains.

Then tried another plugin, ClangAutoComplete, I can get auto-completed struct member normally.

In addition, i'm using sublime text on Win10 Pro x64.

[niosus]

Wait for calling it great until you're able to run it :)
Anyway, there is a setting in the plugin search_clang_complete_file. It will enable searching for .clang_complete file. It is on by default.

Also, I had one more question. Are you intending to use a .clang_complete file on a global level? Say in home directory? For now the plugin will only search until the project folder is reached and no further.

Also, I'm not too familiar with typical usage of such file. Is it only for includes or is it also for other compile flags? For now I read only lines that start with -I, e.g. -Isrc and after parsing it is just src

[niosus]

Thanks for trying out @canfoderiskii !

Uh, Windows :) I am not too familiar with it. Can you please enable the verbose flag in settings and look into the sublime console for a line COMPLETIONS WILL NOT BE AVAILABLE? If you see it - it means that the plugin cannot find libclang.

Alternatively, can you point me to a good tutorial on how to install clang on windows and I will return to you once I have found out what happens there.

[canfoderiskii]

@niosus , I turned on verbose flag, and saw this line in the sublime text console:
EasyClangComplete: function 'clang_CXXField_isMutable' not found. Please ensure that your python bindings are compatible with your libclang.so version.
Looks like libclang.so is where the problem comes from.

Installing clang is simple on Windows, binary is provided officially.
We can download it from this page: http://llvm.org/releases/download.html. The downloaded file for Windows is a installer and installation is simple: pick a target path and keep clicking "Next".

[niosus]

Oh, ok. Thanks. I guess I will then install it on my windows setup and see what is going on there. I will try to finish it in the next couple of days.

[canfoderiskii]

@niosus Thank you for replying so quickly and for your work.

[niosus]

@canfoderiskii you're welcome :) I really want to make this one easy to use, so thanks for your help.

[canfoderiskii]

@niosus I just found out that i missed one of your reply. Let me answer here As far as i know, the .clang_complete file contains parameters "-I" and "-D", the former is for path while the latter is for macro definition.

And that file may not be located in Home folder, It can be anywhere I need it to be, maybe a project source folder

[niosus]

@canfoderiskii ok, I will look into -D lines too then :)

[niosus]

I added full support for this feature. Now one is able to use -I<abs_path>, -I<local_path> and -D<macros> in a .clang_complete file. I close this issue for now. You will be able to test it as soon as I find a solution to issue #4

[canfoderiskii]

@niosus Okay, thank you