I think a good idea might be to allow calling these files "_clang-format", similar to how Vim's ".vimrc" files are called "_vimrc" on Windows.
I sent out a patch for that: http://llvm-reviews.chandlerc.com/D1629, let's see how it goes. - Hans On Sun, Sep 8, 2013 at 9:17 AM, Michael Price <[email protected]> wrote: > Alright, I figured it out. > > The name of the file literally has to be ".clang-format". A file that has > an extension of ".clang-format" is not good enough. IMO, the documentation > should either be made more clear, or we should allows that form of filename. > On Windows, it is not obvious how to create a file that "has no filename, > only an 'extension'". In fact, Explorer freaks out and won't let you do it, > you have to do it from the command-line or some application. If I don't get > any hits on this list, I'll forward over to the cfe-dev list. > > > > On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 7:58 PM, Michael Price > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> FWIW, when I run clang-format directly when in the directory with the >> source code, I get this message at the top of the output: >> >> Can't find usable .clang-format, using LLVM style >> >> >> On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 7:06 PM, Michael Price >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> The guidance for how to use the "File" configuration for the options is >>> not clear. >>> >>> I've put a .clang-format file in the same directory as the source code, >>> but it doesn't seem to be picking up those settings. Does anyone have an >>> example of how this is supposed to work? >>> >>> They guidance provided by the plugin (in the Visual Studio options dialog >>> for the extension) gives an example for the content of the YAML file along >>> the lines of >>> >>> '{BasedOnStyle: "LLVM", IndentWidth:8}' >>> >>> But this exact string doesn't seem to work, neither does removing the >>> outer quotes, nor the curly braces, nor the commas (which is the format that >>> clang-format -dump-config prints out). _______________________________________________ cfe-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/cfe-users
