Index: docs/clangd.rst =================================================================== --- docs/clangd.rst +++ docs/clangd.rst @@ -143,6 +143,25 @@ :program:`Emacs` provides `lsp-mode `_ and `Eglot `_ plugins for LSP integration. +Project-wide Index +================== + +By default :program:`Clangd` only has a view on symbols coming from files you +are currently editing. You can extend this view to whole project by providing a +project-wide index to :program:`Clangd`. + +There are two ways you can generate a project-wide index for clangd: + +- Passing experimental `-background-index` commandline argument, which will + incrementally build an index of projects that you work on and make use of that + in clangd automatically. +- Generate an index file using `clangd-indexer + `_ + Afterwards you can pass generated index file to clangd using + `-index-file=/path/to/index_file`. *Note that clangd-indexer isn't included + alongside clangd in the standard clang-tools package. You will likely have to + build from source to use this option* + Getting Involved ==================