.clang_format style file not used

[CodingJonas]

I have a costume .clang-format file in my home directory. When I run vim-clang-format in gVim, it formats the code without my costume settings, although I set
let g:clang_format#detect_style_file = 1

in my vimrc. Does the plugin conflict with other plugins? What could be the problem?

[lopippo]

Are you sure you should not put that .clang-format file in the source directory?

[rhysd]

Please give me the information which enables me to reproduce the problem. At least in my environment it looks working.

[andmer]

i have a .clang_format in ~/.clang_format
does it pick up that global config if no local one is present in CWD?

[k-o-ta]

I'd had the same problem when using vim-clang and vim-clang-format together.

Vim-clang and vim-calng-format use same command(ClangFormat).
In my environment, ClangFormat command invokes vim-clang's ClangFormat and vim-clang's 'ClangFormta' uses LLVM style by default

let g:clang_enable_format_command = 0 inhibits vim-clang's ClangFormat and have solved my problem.
https://github.com/justmao945/vim-clang/blob/master/plugin/clang.vim#L69-L71

[1pakch]

I also observe that vim-clang-format does not pick up ~/.clang_format which is picked up if I run clang-format tool by myself.

[ghost]

if I set this in my ~/.vimrc file

• let g:clang_format#detect_style_file = 1

then, vim-clang-format finds .clang-format from current working directory toward it's ancestors?
or it only checks the current working directory?

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from README

• g:clang_format#detect_style_file

When this variable's value is 1, vim-clang-format automatically detects(<-how does this work?) the style file like .clang-format or _clang-format and applies the style to formatting.

[r7vme]

I also came across similar issue. My root cause was that default style used by plugin is google (g:clang_format#code_style) instead of LLVM system-wide.

So to switch to file:

1. clang-format -style=Google -dump-config > ~/.clang-format
2. update ~/.clang-format with values from g:clang_format#style_options