clang-based highlighting

[jeaye]

Since YCM has replaced the need for tags in my code base, my old tag-based highlighting is the only ancient remnant of a worse life. Is there any chance YCM would adopt clang-based highlighting for more accurate results than something like http://www.cgtk.co.uk/vim-scripts/taghighlight?

[oblitum]

Duplicate of #411.

[oblitum]

https://github.com/jeaye/color_coded (a.k.a. yourself) does this already.

[jeaye]

I created this before writing color_coded. Still, I think that, if ycmd would provide generic access to the AST, libclang-based plugins would be able to use that instead of each compiling the code on their own. I know, if this were provided, I would certainly rework color_coded to use it.

[oblitum]

@jeaye I agree, although I have a belief that such big effort around libclang may deserve its own project along the lines of this old idea.

[jeaye]

On Wed, Oct 07, 2015 at 01:25:47PM -0700, Francisco Lopes wrote:

[1]@jeaye I agree, although I have a belief that such big effort around
libclang may deserve its own project along the lines of [2]this old idea.

Yup, that would do it. One issue with that is even YMCD will need a big reworking. If LLVM is willing to provide and support it, that might be worthwhile though. If not, YCMD is the most stable and well-known libclang-based service for editors.