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Each language client may have its own way to specify initialization options. Also, initialization options can be specified on the ccls command line using the --init option.

`cache.directory`

Default: ".ccls-cache"

This option was named cacheDirectory in the 0.20181225.8 release and before.

If your project is /a/b, cache directories will be created at /a/b/.ccls-cache/@a@b/ (files under the project root) /a/b/.ccls-cache/@@a@b/ (files outside the project root, e.g. /usr/include/stdio.h).

If the path name is longer than the system limit, set cache.hierarchicalPath to true. The cache files will be stored in a hierarchical manner: /a/b/.ccls-cache/a/b/. Be careful if you specify an absolute path as files indexed by different projects may conflict.

This can also be an absolute path. Because the project path is encoded with @, cache directories of different projects will not conflict.

When ccls is started, it will try loading cache files if they are not stale (compile command line matches and timestamps of main source and its #include (direct and transitive) dependencies do not change).

If the argument is an empty string, the cache will be stored only in memory. Use this if you don't want to write cache files.

Example: {"cache": {"directory": "/tmp/ccls-cache"}}

`cache.format`

Default: "binary"

This option was named cacheFormat in the 0.20181225.8 release and before.

Specify the format of the cached index files. Binary is a compact binary serialization format.

If you would like to inspect the contents of the cache you can change this to "json" then use a JSON formatter such as jq . < /tmp/ccls/@tmp@c/a.cc.json to display it.

Example: {"cacheFormat": "json"}

`clang.extraArgs` / `clang.excludeArgs`

Default: empty

Additional arguments or excluded arguments for compile_commands.json entries.

If your compiler is not Clang and it supports arguments which Clang doesn't understand, then you can use clang.excludeArgs to remove those arguments when indexing.

Conversely, you can add more arguments using clang.extraArgs (this could also be done through the .ccls file).

Example: {"clang": {"excludeArgs": ["-frounding-math"]}}

`clang.pathMappings`

Default: empty

A list of src>dest path conversions used to remap the paths of files in the project. This can be used to move a project to a new location without re-indexing.

If cache files were built with project root /tmp/remote/proj, and you want to reuse them with a different project root /tmp/host/proj then copy the cache:

rsync -a /tmp/ccls/@tmp@remote@proj/ /tmp/ccls/@tmp@host@proj/ # files under project root
rsync -a /tmp/ccls/@@tmp@remote@proj/ /tmp/ccls/@@tmp@host@proj/ # files outside of project root

Then use the initialization option

{"clang": {"pathMappings": ["/remote/>/host/"]}

When ccls indexes /tmp/host/proj/a.cc, the cache file /tmp/ccls/@tmp@remote@proj/a.cc.blob will be reused. When a.cc is saved (re-indexed), the newly generated a.cc.blob will not contain /tmp/remote paths any more.

`cache.retainInMemory`

Default: 1

Change to 0 if you want to save memory, but having multiple ccls processes operating in the same directory may corrupt ccls's in-memory representation of the index.

After this number of loads, keep a copy of file index in memory (which increases memory usage). During incremental updates, the removed file index will be taken from the in-memory copy, instead of the on-disk file.

Every index action is counted: the initial load, a save action. 0: never retain; 1: retain after initial load; 2: retain after 2 loads (initial load+first save)

`clang.resourceDir`

Default: empty

The clang resource directory (something like .../lib/clang/9.0.0) is hard-coded into ccls at compile time. You should be able to find <resourceDir>/include/stddef.h. Set this option to a non-empty string to override the hard-coded value.

Use the path provided as the Clang resource directory rather the default. See Clang Resource Directory for more information.

`client.snippetSupport`

`completion.placeholder`

client.snippetSupport (default: true) and completion.placeholder (default: true) decide the completion style.

client.snippetSupport: false => foo
client.snippetSupport: true
- completion.placeholder: false => foo($1)$0 bar<$1>()$0
- completion.placeholder: true => foo(${1:int a}, ${2:int b})$0 bar<${1:typename T}>()$0

If the client announces that it does not support snippets, client.snippetSupport will be forced to false.

Example: {"client": {"snippetSupport": true}, "completion": {"placeholder": false}}

`compilationDatabaseDirectory`

Default: ""

If not empty, look for compile_commands.json in it, otherwise the file is retrieved in the project root.

Useful when using out-of-tree builds with the compilation database being generated in the build directory.

Example: {"compilationDatabaseDirectory": "out/release"}

`diagnostics.onOpen` / `diagnostics.onChange` / `diagnostics.onSave`

Default: onOpen: 0 / onChange: 1000 / onSave: 0

Time (in milliseconds) to wait before computing diagnostics for textDocument/{didOpen,didChange,didSave}.

diagnostics.onOpen: How long to wait before diagnostics are emitted when a document is opened.
diagnostics.onChange: after receiving a textDocument/didChange, wait up to this long before reporting diagnostics. Changes during this period of time only lead to one computation.
diagnostics.onSave: How long to wait before diagnostics are emitted after a document is saved.

Diagnostics require parsing the file. If diagnostics.onChange: 1000 makes you feel slow, consider {"diagnostics": {"onChange": 1}}.

`index.threads`

Default: 0

How many threads to start when indexing a project. 0 means use std::thread::hardware_concurrency() (the number of cores the system has). If you want to reduce peak CPU and memory usage, set it to a small integer.

Example: {"index": {"threads": 2}}

`index.comments`

Default: 2

ccls can index the contents of comments associated with functions/types/variables (macros are not handled). This value controls how comments are indexed:

0: don't index comments
1: index Doxygen comment markers
2: use -fparse-all-comments and recognize plain // /* */ in addition to Doxygen comment markers

This feature requires UI support as multi-line textDocument/hover results pose a problem for some editors:

Emacs
- lsp-ui-doc https://github.com/emacs-lsp/lsp-ui
- lsp-mode eldoc See https://github.com/emacs-lsp/lsp-mode/pull/224
Vim
- LanguageClient-neovim: preview window

Example: {"index": {"comments": 1}}

`index.multiVersion`

Default: 0

Index a file only once (0), or in each translation unit that includes it (1).

The default is sensible for common usage: it reduces memory footprint. If both a.cc and b.cc include a.h, there is only one indexed version of a.h.

But for dependent name lookup, or references in headers that may change depending on other macros, etc, you may want to index a file multiple times to get every possible cross reference. In that case set the option to 1 but be aware that it may increase index file sizes significantly.

Also consider using index.multiVersionBlacklist to exclude system headers.

`index.multiVersionBlacklist`

Default: empty

A list of regular expressions matching files that should not be indexed via multi-version if that value is 1.

Commonly this is used to avoid indexing system headers multiple times as this is seldom useful.

Example: {"index": {"multiVersion": 1, "multiVersionBlacklist": ["^/usr/include"]}}

`index.initialBlacklist`

Default: []

A list of regular expressions matching files that should not be indexed when the ccls server starts up, but will still be indexed if a client opens them. If there are areas of the project that you have no interest in indexing you can use this to avoid it unless you visit those files.

This can also be set to match all files, which is helpful in avoiding massive parsing operations when performing quick edits on large projects.

Be aware that you will not have access to full cross-referencing information in this situation.

If index.initialWhitelist is also specified, the whitelist takes precedence.

Example: {"index": {"initialBlacklist": ["."]}} (matches all files)

`index.onChange`

Default: false

If false, a file is re-indexed when saved, updating the global index incrementally.

If set to true, a document is re-indexed for every (unsaved) change. Performance may suffer, but it is convenient for playground projects. Generally this is best used in conjunction with empty cache.directory to avoid writing cache files to disk.

Example: {"cache": {"directory": ""}, "index": {"onChange": true}}

`index.trackDependency`

Default: 2

Determine whether a file should be re-indexed when any of its dependencies changes timestamp.

If a.h has been changed, when you open a.cc which includes a.h then if trackDependency is:

0: no re-indexing unless a.cc itself changes timestamp.
2: the index of a.cc is considered stale and it should be re-indexed.
1: before the initial load, the behavior of 2 is used, otherwise the behavior of 0 is used.

Example: {"index": {"trackDependency": 1}}

`completion.detailedLabel`

Default: true

When this option is enabled, label and detailed are re-purposed:

label: detailed function signature, e.g. foo(int a, int b) -> bool
detailed: the name of the parent context, e.g. in S s; s.<complete>, the parent context is S.

Example: {"completion": {"detailedLabel": false}}

`completion.filterAndSort`

Default: true

ccls filters and sorts completions to try to be nicer to clients that can't handle big numbers of completion candidates. This behaviour can be disabled by specifying false for the option.

This option is useful for LSP clients that implement their own filtering and sorting logic.

Example: {"completion": {"filterAndSort": false}}

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Command Line

-h / --help

--index=<root>

--init=<json>

--log-file=<file> / --log-file-append=<bool>

-v=<N>

Initialization Options

cache.directory

cache.format

clang.extraArgs / clang.excludeArgs

clang.pathMappings

cache.retainInMemory

clang.resourceDir

client.snippetSupport

completion.placeholder

compilationDatabaseDirectory

diagnostics.onOpen / diagnostics.onChange / diagnostics.onSave

index.threads

index.comments

index.multiVersion

index.multiVersionBlacklist

index.initialBlacklist

index.onChange

index.trackDependency

completion.detailedLabel

completion.filterAndSort

`-h` / `--help`

`--index=<root>`

`--init=<json>`

`--log-file=<file>` / `--log-file-append=<bool>`

`-v=<N>`

`cache.directory`

`cache.format`

`clang.extraArgs` / `clang.excludeArgs`

`clang.pathMappings`

`cache.retainInMemory`

`clang.resourceDir`

`client.snippetSupport`

`completion.placeholder`

`compilationDatabaseDirectory`

`diagnostics.onOpen` / `diagnostics.onChange` / `diagnostics.onSave`

`index.threads`

`index.comments`

`index.multiVersion`

`index.multiVersionBlacklist`

`index.initialBlacklist`

`index.onChange`

`index.trackDependency`

`completion.detailedLabel`

`completion.filterAndSort`