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# ccls
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[](https://telegram.me/cclsp)
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[](https://gitter.im/ccls-project/ccls)
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ccls, which originates from [cquery](https://github.com/cquery-project/cquery), is a C/C++/Objective-C language server.
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* code completion (with both signature help and snippets)
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* [definition](src/messages/textDocument_definition.cc)/[references](src/messages/textDcument_references.cc), and other cross references
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* cross reference extensions: `$ccls/call` `$ccls/inheritance` `$ccls/member` `$ccls/vars` ...
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* hierarchies: [call (caller/callee) hierarchy](src/messages/ccls_call.cc), [inheritance (base/derived) hierarchy](src/messages/ccls_inheritance.cc), [member hierarchy](src/messages/ccls_member.cc)
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* [symbol rename](src/messages/textDocument_rename.cc)
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* [document symbols](src/messages/textDocument_documentSymbol.cc) and approximate search of [workspace symbol](src/messages/workspace_symbol.cc)
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* [hover information](src/messages/textDocument_hover.cc)
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* diagnostics and code actions (clang FixIts)
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* semantic highlighting and preprocessor skipped regions
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* semantic navigation: `$ccls/navigate`
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It has a global view of the code base and support a lot of cross reference features, see [wiki/FAQ](../../wiki/FAQ).
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It starts indexing the whole project (including subprojects if exist) parallelly when you open the first file, while the main thread can serve requests before the indexing is complete.
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Saving files will incrementally update the index.
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Compared with cquery, it makes use of C++17 features, has less third-party dependencies and slimmed-down code base.
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It leverages Clang C++ API as [clangd](https://clang.llvm.org/extra/clangd.html) does, which provides better support for code completion and diagnostics.
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Refactoring and formatting are non-goals as they can be provided by clang-format, clang-include-fixer and other Clang based tools.
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The comparison with cquery as noted on 2018-07-15:
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|------------ |--------------------------------|------------------------------|
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| third_party | more | fewer |
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| C++ | C++14 | C++17 |
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| clang API | libclang (C) | clang/llvm C++ |
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| Filesystem | AbsolutePath + custom routines | llvm/Support |
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| index | libclang | clangIndex, some enhancement |
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| pipeline | index merge+id remapping | simpler and more robust |
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cquery has system include path detection (through running the compiler driver) while ccls uses clangDriver.
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# >>> [Getting started](../../wiki/Getting-started) (CLICK HERE) <<<
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* [Build](../../wiki/Build)
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* [Emacs](../../wiki/Emacs)
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* [LanguageClient-neovim](../../wiki/LanguageClient-neovim)
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* [FAQ](../../wiki/FAQ)
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ccls can index itself (~180MiB RSS when ide, noted on 2018-09-01), FreeBSD, glibc, Linux, LLVM (~1800MiB RSS), musl (~60MiB RSS), ... with decent memory footprint. See [wiki/compile_commands.json](../../wiki/compile_commands.json) for examples.
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