blob: 1803088382b761db6b67331b645fcd78e4b0c489 [file] [log] [blame]
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<head>
<meta name="copyright" content=
"Copyright (c) Red Hat Incorporated 2006, 2017. This page is made available under license. For full details see the LEGAL in the documentation book that contains this page." />
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css" />
<title>
Generating a Config File for the Formatter Application
</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="../book.css" charset="ISO-8859-1" type=
"text/css" />
</head>
<body>
<h1>
Generating a Config File for the Formatter Application
</h1>
<p>
Generating a config file for the formatter application involves modifying
the code formatter settings for a C/C++ project and copying
org.eclipse.cdt.core.prefs out of the .settings directory for that
project.
</p>
<ol>
<li>Select a C/C++ project, open the pop-up menu and choose
<strong>Properties</strong>.
</li>
<li>Select the <strong>C/C++ General &gt; Formatter</strong> page and
check <strong>Enable project specific settings</strong>.
</li>
<li>Select or edit a profile as explained above.
</li>
<li>Click <strong>OK</strong> when you are done.
</li>
<li>Use either a file manager or the command line to copy
<b><code>workspace/YourCProject/.settings/org.eclipse.cdt.core.prefs</code></b>
to a new location.
</li>
</ol>
</body>
</html>