how to add include path for language servers in coc-settings.json file?

Hi there.

since I work in ros platform I want to add the headers of the ros(/opt/ros/kinetic/include/**) to my default include path of language servers for ros projects. with out this option, at the beginning of each project I must add a dummy ros node(is ros node means a cpp file), and compile with catkin_make -DCMAKE_EXPORT_COMPILE_COMMANDS=YES to generate the compile_commands.json file to get access to ros headers in the completion list.

the contents of my coc-setting file, is as below:

{

"languageserver": {
    "clangd": {
      "command": "clangd",
      "rootPatterns": ["compile_flags.txt", "compile_commands.json"],
      "filetypes": ["c", "cpp", "objc", "objcpp"]
    },
    "cquery": {
      "command": "/home/amirrezasadeghi/ManBuildLibs/cquery/build/cquery",
      "args": ["--log-file=/tmp/cq.log"],
      "filetypes": ["c", "cpp"],
      "rootPatterns": ["compile_flags.txt", "compile_commands.json", ".git/", ".hg/"],
      "initializationOptions": {
        "cacheDirectory": "/tmp/cquery"
      }
    },
    "ccls": {
      "command": "ccls",
      "filetypes": ["c", "cpp", "objc", "objcpp"],
      "rootPatterns": [".ccls", "compile_commands.json", ".git/", ".hg/"],
      "initializationOptions": {
         "cache": {
           "directory": "/tmp/ccls"
         }
       }
    }
  },
  "clangd.semanticHighlighting": true
}

So my major question is how to add ros include path to these settings. I checked the wiki page of coc.nvim but can’t find any option for user include path. also, I checked the option of clangd and tried to add, "args":["-I/opt/ros/kinetic/include/"], to the corresponding block but it did not work. also, I added .cquery file, but still no effect on the list of the proposed headers.

sorry for long story, and thanks for your time.

Edit: it would be better to use the clangd LSP rather than ccls. because it is faster and has better documentation. thanks!

[amirrezasadeqi]

Hi there. thank you guys for your help and descriptions. finally, I found a way to make the procedure of adding include path like the procedure of VSCode. so I wrote a remote plugin in python(neovim_includePlug_draft.py.zip) which exports a Command(:IncludePath). by running this command, it prompts you to enter the include path then it automatically adds this path to compile options of the corresponding file in the compile_commands.json file. so without regeneration of the JSON file, you will have headers of the included path in your autocompletion. thank you all …

[sam-mccall]

Generally speaking clangd treats include paths as a per-project setting, and you should have a compile_commands.json file generated by your build system, or the simpler compile_flags.txt which could contain just -I/opt/ros/kinetic/include. http://clangd.llvm.org/installation.html#project-setup

If you don’t want to add this to every project directory, you can place the compile_flags.txt somewhere (/some/for/compile_flags.txt) and use the clangd flag -compile-commands-dir=/some/dir.

Be aware that using compile_flags.txt means background indexing won’t work, as it doesn’t provide the list of files to consider part of the project.