

To go deeper, CLion lets you create custom Live Templates or ‘Surround With’ templates (which quickly wrap a selected code with a construct).
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How to get a loop or iterate over a range (in C++11 style) by typing just a few symbols? Type for and press Tab to get a loop or type iter or itit and then press Tab: Live templates for your favorite or most used pieces of code The same works for variables and class names:ģ. The declaration and definition will appear immediately in your code: Should you stop right here to implement this function? Not at all! Ask CLion to generate a stub and come back to it later. Suppose you’ve used a function that is not implemented or not even declared yet. When we have a brilliant idea in mind, we don’t want to spend time on something routine and mundane. Oh, and if only one possible option is found, you’ll get it completed immediately! And that’s exactly what CLion’s smart completion does! It intelligently filters the suggestions based on the code context: Very often we need only smth with type idPlayer * here. That’s simple, but do we really need all these options in the sample below? Code completion is essential: we just start typing a symbol (variable, function, type, class name) and the editor shows us a list of matching suggestions. In the first place, we all need an editor. In addition to C/C++, you can also use JavaScript, XML, HTML and CSS with the same level of code editing and transformation features such as syntax highlighting, analysis, completion, navigation, and refactorings. It correctly handles macros and templates and can work with GCC or Clang (on Windows you’ll need either MinGW/MinGW-w64 or Cygwin), GDB as a built-in debugger, and CMake as a build system and project model.

It natively supports C and C++, including the C++11 standard (with some small limitations), libc++ and Boost. These 10 CLion tips can take you to a new level of productivity, by letting you focus on the important and complicated tasks while the IDE handles routine jobs for you.īefore we start, let me introduce you to CLion, a new cross-platform IDE for developing in C and C++, created by JetBrains. Because what could be better than the simple and quick Vim or Emacs? Well, let me show you. Judging from my own experience as a developer, many C/C++ developers dismiss the idea that an IDE can make them more productive.
