> When you line-break an expression, clang-format will indent it a >fixed amount from the beginning of the next line, > where QtCreator will try to find places to line up with from the line above, > including indenting from the > last paranthesis For instance:
I don't use QtCreator, but clang-format does it as you describe for QtCreator. And this works very nicely (...most of the time). Now, I don't remember which one of the many settings is responsible for this. Philippe On Wed, 20 Jun 2018 15:08:29 +0200 Allan Sandfeld Jensen <k...@carewolf.com> wrote: > On Mittwoch, 20. Juni 2018 14:09:20 CEST Ivan Donchevskii wrote: > > One more thing about clang-format. > > > > It might be really nice if we use it as a default formatting tool in Qt > > Creator. And I really want to experiment with it and see how clang-format > > can replace the indenter that we currently use (which has a lot of bug > > reports about broken formatting for example with modern C++). > > > > I never seen anything QtCreator had trouble with. But on the subject, there > is > one standard indentation features QtCreator has that clang-format can't > reproduce. When you line-break an expression, clang-format will indent it a > fixed amount from the beginning of the next line, where QtCreator will try to > find places to line up with from the line above, including indenting from the > last paranthesis For instance: > > int a = foobar(x) + foo(looooooongfunctionname( > looongvariablename)); > > vs > > int a = foobar(x) + foo(looooooongfunctionname( > looongvariablename)); > > > This semantic indentation is not something clang-format can do at the moment. > At least if someone knows how, I would love to know, I have search > everywhere, > including the clang-format code. > > It is not so bad in this case, but once you have multiple line-break like > that > in a long function call, clang-formated code is essentionally just > unformatted. > > In any case if we want to enforce clang-format everywhere, perhaps we > shouldn't have QtCreator do smarter and more readable indentation that we do > not allow in our repository? > > 'Allan > > > > _______________________________________________ > Development mailing list > Development@qt-project.org > http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development _______________________________________________ Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
