Questions tagged [filetype-c]
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Move the caret to proper indentation inside insert mode in C files when using arrow keys
In insert mode, scope indentation is not taken into account if I navigate rows during insert mode. Example:
In such a case, if I would press the up arrow key, Vim would place my caret at the start of ...
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Syntax highlighting in parallel folders [closed]
My syntax highlighting does not work for my C-project, if I use folders in parallel. Consider this file tree:
project
├── include
│ ├── main.h
│ ├── file1.h
│ └── file2.h
└── src
├── main.c
...
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Loading C file overwrites indentation settings in .vimrc [duplicate]
When I open a C file in vim, it seems to think I want 8 spaces worth of indentation, even though I specify my indentation preferences in .vimrc with the below:
set expandtab
set softtabstop=4
set ...
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How to highlight if defined with #define in Vim?
I want to highlight if defined with #define in Vim. For example, if I type #define ZERO 0, highlight ZERO with a different color.
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Preventing the colon from causing indentation to be deleted
When opening a C file, then even with the vanilla setup on my Linux Mint system, if I type identifier at the beginning of an indented line and then ':'
immediately after it, the indentation for that ...
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Vim to highlight functions and user-defined types
I have two scenarios where I want vim to highlight those items. Currently my fix for these are to add the return types directly into the after/syntax/c.vim file, but this gets incredibly tedious. Here ...
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Syntax highlighting for two components of C syntax
What are the following two components that I need to target with syntax highlighting/rules?
The first one is the int (or more generall, any storage class) that I want to colorize. If currently have ...
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How do I make Clang Completer Auto-Complete/Auto Show options
I have recently moved to vim and was looking into specific auto-completion plugins and tools to use for C/C++ (after YCM did not work for me). I found and installed Clang Completer and it works like a ...
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Neovim - Point builtin LSP client for ccls to a compile_commands.json file
I'm using neovim's builtin lsp client for ccls. It requires a JSON compilation database for parsing the codebase (or something, I dunno).
I used to use Bear for generating the compilation database, ...
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automatic popup in vim with clang_complete plugin
I want to use Vim to program in clang (*.c and *.cpp).
At the moment I am trying to use the clang-complete plugin and I like the autocompletion but I have to use the <C-n> or <C-p> ...
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How does ft-c-omni work and how can I make it faster?
As I was studying the various ways of doing completion in Vim 8.0, I came across the very interesting "omni-completion" feature and its 'omnifunc' option, which is specialized as ccomplete#...
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How to tell vim to ignore extern “C” brakets while indenting?
I have the following in my .vimrc to indent the whole file:
nnoremap cu gg=G``
I have a problem using this in source files that have
#ifdef __cplusplus
extern "C"
{
#endif
// code
#ifdef ...
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Is it possible to create a snippet to “expand” struct members to fill?
In the type of c programming that I do day to day, I often have to "fill" struct members in order to pass them to an API. For example:
struct measurement {
double start_time;
double end_time;
double ...
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How to correctly add syntax highlighting to all c typedef [duplicate]
I saw that it's possible to manually add types to highlight, according to this post: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20149478/how-can-i-teach-vim-about-additional-c-language-types-for-syntax-...
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How to clang-format the current buffer on save?
Whats the best way to clang-format a C/C++/GLSL a buffer on save, that does nothing in the case there is no clang-format file found for a project?
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Using NerdCommenter to comment/uncomment blocks with old-style C comments
I'm using the NerdCommenters leader c<space> to toggle comments on blocks of C code, but when those blocks already contain C comments, they get replaced, by default with [> and <], and ...
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Vim syntax match changes based on function type name keyword
I've written a C code syntax rule to highlight function names in function definitions as such:
This is the syntax rule written in ~/.vim/syntax/c.vim:
syntax match cCustomFunc /\w\+\s\+\zs\w\+(/he=e-...
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ALE + clangtidy + large file = big delay when linting
I am using ALE plugin with clangtidy linter to lint my C code and whenever I save my file and this linter gets activated it takes around 3-4 seconds for it to check for errors. File in question is ...
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Indenting a c file adds spaces before function's type?
Open a c file and then type:
int
main
and then hit:
gg=G
It becomes
int
main
Is this an intended behavior? Is there a way to change this? I prefer it to be retained as is because most ...
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How do you navigate large source files with VIM?
First, I'm not asking about performance. I'm looking for something that will help me, mentally, get into large C source code files that I'm not yes accustomed to. Take for example readelf.c. This file ...
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Insert C/C++ loops and statements templates automatically [closed]
How do I insert C/C++-type loops and statements templates automatically in Vim?
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Is there a way to open header file in c?
I'm trying to configure vim for programming in C. I currently use YouCompleteMe and Syntastic for programming auto-completion and syntax-checking. But I came up with a problem.
I cannot jump to a ...
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How do I highlight pc-lint comments in C/C++
How do I mimic the behavior of Doxygen comment highlighting for PC-lint comments? Comments are in the following formats:
/*lint ... */
//lint ...
/* LINTLIBRARY */
/* ARGUSED */
/* VARARGS[N] */ <--...
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Folding doesn't work for C/C++
I've been having a ridiculously hard time getting C/C++ code folding to work with set foldmethod=syntax. To debug my issue I've stripped down my vimrc to only this:
set foldmethod=syntax
syntax on ...
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How can I highlight WinAPI functions in C++?
How can I add syntax highlight for windows.h C/C++ apis and types?
All I've found is a tiny winapi syntax file here.
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folding, curly bracket under the function name
I have these two functions
void function_one(){
return;
}
void function_two()
{
return;
}
when I use zM to fold the functions I get
+-- 3 lines: void function_one(){--
void ...
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Why does cindent align statements to closing } in switch case?
I prefer this indentation style for switch cases with local variables:
switch (expr) {
case CONST_BLAH1: {
int decl; // scope local to this case
stmt;
break;
case CONST_BLAH2: ...
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Vim syntax highlighting for custom C types
I want to use syntax highlighting for custom C types. Based on my coding convention, types can occur in the following places:
typedef type1 type2;
(static | extern | register | volatile)? type ...;
...
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Jumping from function definition tag to prototype tag
As far as I understand Vim has a built-in support for tags (ctags in this case)
Now I have a common C source and C header file. The header file has void foo(void); and the source file has void foo(...
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Tools for working with C #ifdef preprocessor directives?
I want to work with a C code with a lot of #ifdef directives. I wonder if there is a program, that will show me, which of these #ifdef's will be left in the code, and which will be cut out by ...
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Indenting c/c++ using lisp indentation style
I want to write c++ code in vim using lisp indentation style (closing curly braces on the same line as last statement) but I can't figure out how to configure indentation to use that style.
Is there ...
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Auto Indent (the = key) of C switch block
For the following switch block:
If I select the switch block and apply the auto format command, the = key, I get the following:
The block is formatted correctly in the first image, but it gets ...
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Color change in the middle of #define [duplicate]
Every time I have a '0' character in a #define preprocessor directive in C, I get a change of color. Neither the font nor color scheme have influence on it. It is starting to annoy me. Does anyone ...
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Customize vim to automatically check function name against its prototype
I wonder if there is any method that I can use to check a function name against its prototype, which may help a lot when I make typo.
For example, I once wrote a function prototype this way:void ...
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Vim `cpp` Syntax highlighter prematurely ends macros mid-word
NOTE: This question is a "manual migration" from here: https://superuser.com/q/875751/199803
My Vim syntax highlighter for ft=cpp is prematurely ending some macros mid-line. For example:
(The ...
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Automatically creating functions out of function prototypes from header files
Intro
When programming in C and C++ you usually split your function prototypes and actual functions into a .h/.hpp and .c/.cpp file. Sadly it's very tedious to transfer the function prototypes from ...
