Auto insert semicolon after class definition in Codelite

Question

When writing classes in Codelite, I get this annoying behaviour where the IDE doesn't insert a semicolon after the closing brace, which has resulted in a few annoying syntax errors when compiling.
I tried looking in the program's Preferences menu but couldn't find a relevant option and Google didn't help either in this respect.
Is there any option at all to enable the auto-insertion of a semicolon after a class declaration?

Answer 1

CodeLite does not do that by default and there is no setting that you can modify to do that.

You can however, achieve this in two other ways:

Use the class wizard:

Create your class using the 'Class Wizard': Right click on a folder in the tree view and select New class

Use the abbreviations plugin

• From the menu bar: plugins->abbreviations->settings
• Click on the new entry button (green plus icon)

• Name it "class" (or a name of your choice) and paste the following code:

  class | { public:

  };

• Click "Save"

• Now when typing in the editor class hit: Ctrl-ENTER and you will see this entry - select it and it will added to the text editor for you.

NOTE: the | marker indicates where CodeLite will place the caret, You can have multiple carets. So the above example can be expanded to something like this:

class | {
public:
    |(){}
    ~|(){}
};

Now, when CodeLite adds this snippet to the editor, you will get 3 carets. Typing the class name will add them in all three locations

NOTE 2: The above was tested using CodeLite 11.0.8 (git latest), but it should work with CodeLite 11.0 as well

HTH,

Eran, Author of CodeLite IDE