lh-style

Discl. This page is currently under heavy reorganization!

TODO:

• Complete the documentation
• reorganize the sections to: -[X] Intro -[ ] Features -[ ] Code formatting -[x] rationale -[ ] end-user side -[x] .editorconfig -[x] .clang-format (to be implemented) -[x] :UseStyle -[x] :AddStyle -[ ] extending the style families -[x] Naming policies -[ ] API -[ ] Contributing -[X] Installation

Introduction

lh-style is a vim script library that defines vim functions and commands that permit to specify stylistic preferences like naming conventions, bracket formatting, etc.

In itself the only feature end-users can directly exploit is name converting based on the style name (snake_case, UpperCamelCase...) like Abolish plugin does, or on a given identifier kind (function, type, class, attribute...). Check :NameConvert and ConvertNames -- sorry I wasn't inspired.

The main, and unique, feature is this plugin is to offer core functionalities, related to code-style, other plugins can exploit. Typical client plugins would be code generating plugins: wizards/snippet/abbreviation plugins, and refactoring plugins.

The style can be tuned through options. The options are meant to be tuned by end-users, and indirectly used by plugin maintainers. See API section to see how you could exploit these options from your plugins.

Snippets from lh-cpp and mu-template, and refactorings from lh-refactor exploit the options offered by lh-style for specifying code style.

Note: The library has been extracted from lh-dev v2.x.x. in order to remove dependencies to lh-tags and other plugins from template/snippet expander plugins like mu-template. Yet, I've decided to reset the version counter to 1.0.0.

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Features

lh-style permits to adjust the style of the code you generate along two axis:

• you can define a naming policy
• you can define a formatting style regarding the placement of brackets, spaces, newlines, and so on.

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Contributing

Contributions are welcomed. I've yet to write a proper CONTRIBUTING.md guide regarding copyright, licence and so on.

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Installation

• Requirements:

  • Vim 7.+,
  • lh-vim-lib (v5.3.1),
  • editorconfig-vim (optional).

• Install with vim-addon-manager any plugin that requires lh-style should be enough.

• With vim-addon-manager, install lh-style (this is the preferred method because of the dependencies).

  ActivateAddons lh-style
  " will also install editorconfig-vim

• vim-flavor (which also supports dependencies)

  flavor 'LucHermitte/lh-style'
  " will also install editorconfig-vim
  

• Vundle/NeoBundle:

  Bundle 'LucHermitte/lh-vim-lib'
  Bundle 'LucHermitte/lh-style'
  " Optional
  Bundle 'editorconfig/editorconfig-vim'

• Clone from the git repositories

  git clone git@github.com:LucHermitte/lh-vim-lib.git
  git clone git@github.com:LucHermitte/lh-style.git
  " Optional
  git clone git@github.com:editorconfig/editorconfig-vim'