Setup Auto - Formatting For C++ Files In Neovim On A Mac
Turns out all I had to do was uncomment [TODO: Code shorthand span ] in the [TODO: Code shorthand span ] section of my ~/.config/nvim/init.lua file to turn on the clangd LSP. (I already had clangd installed)
I think the LSP config with the commented out clangd server was from the kickstart.nvim ks config file I'm using.
These are scratchpad notes I took while figuring things out. Leaving them here as reference.
- Installed clang - format with :
[TODO: Code shorthand span ]
- Video with clangd instead of clang - format
https : //www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCuyEdDQ5iA
this vid uses nvim - lspconfig which I already had installed
- clangd installation
https : //clangd.llvm.org/installation.html
(I already had it installed)
Reference Links To Add
- https : //github.com/neovim/nvim - lspconfig
- https : //github.com/neovim/nvim - lspconfig/wiki/Autocompletion
- https : //github.com/neovim/nvim - lspconfig/blob/master/doc/server _ configurations.md#clangd
- https : //github.com/nvim - lua/kickstart.nvim/blob/master/lua/kickstart/plugins/autoformat.lua
- https : //www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCuyEdDQ5iA
- https : //clangd.llvm.org/installation.html
- https : //github.com/sbdchd/neoformat (not what i ended up with but it was referenced a few times)
- https : //jdhao.github.io/2020/04/19/nvim _ cpp _ and _ c _ completion/ - another appraoch with different tools. This is what I was looking at first, but when I figured out I could use the LSP I went that direction
- https : //www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/s5zjd5/formatter _ for _ c _ code _ in _ neovim/ pointers to some built - in help files for formatting, but not super useful and it doesn't use the LSP
Footnotes And References
- kickstart.nvim
I got turned onto this from TJ DeVries who works on Neovim. It's worked well as a basic starter for me.
- •Set up for C++/C Development in Neovim
This is the post that got me started. It has instruction for auto - completion as well as formatting. I'll get to that at some point, but my immediate concern is the formatting.