Support vala langauge?

[LinArcX]

Support vala langauge?

[Kypert]

From just a quick look, it seems feasible. I made a small manual test, using arrufat/vala.vim as file type detector and syntax highlighting. :ClangFormat can format the code as normal (the whole file or just the visual selected area), it seems.

Of course you need to define the .clang-format file to your liking.

If you are looking for the clang_format#auto_format, clang_format#auto_format_on_insert_leave or clang_format#auto_formatexpr features, then I can put up a PR.

[Kypert]

Looking deeper, it looks like clang-format will take an educated guess and arrive to the conclusion that it is dealing with LK_Cpp (there is no specific vala variant). From my limited view, I see no obvious problem but maybe you can try some more combinations?

Another idea is to make clang-format assume that the file is of type LK_CSharp instead, which should hit closer to home for a vala file? What do you think about the options? It probably depends on which formatting rules you are looking to enable.

[rhysd]

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