Visual Studio 2019 and JUCE coding standards

[timur]

The JUCE coding standards famously say that you should have a whitespace before non-empty parentheses, but no whitespace before empty parentheses:

f();
g (0.5);

However, when typing code like above, I can’t figure out how to teach Visual Studio 2019 to not auto-format my whitespace all the time!

What’s the combination of tickboxes that I have to use so that VS lets me type code like above?

[timur]

Wait, I finally figured it out. For everyone else’s benefit, this is the relevant setting:

[LiamG]

Good to know! Now does anybody have a lead on how to go about retrospectively fixing the spacing in a million and one places throughout a project? Any grep masters out there?

[yairadix]

This can be done using clang-format @danradix

[asimilon]

Automatic JUCE-like code formatting with clang-format

When writing new code that relies on JUCE, it’s nice to follow the style conventions from the JUCE coding standards so that everything looks consistent, and to reduce cognitive overhead when jumping between JUCE files and project files. I’m not a big fan of manually typing spaces to align function arguments and things, so one of my favourite tools is clang-format. I can just write whatever I want, without thinking about formatting, and it tidies up after me. This is great, because now I can jus…

[danradix]

TL;DR: Use the SpaceBeforeParens: NonEmptyParentheses setting in clang-format which was generously added by @reuk