.clang-format

Language: Cpp                                       # Maybe change
Standard: Auto                                      # Maybe change
BasedOnStyle: Google                                # Maybe change
AlignAfterOpenBracket: BlockIndent                  # Better overview
AlignArrayOfStructures: Right                       # Better overview (but might make editing harder)
AlignConsecutiveAssignments: true                   # Better overview (but might make editing harder)
AlignConsecutiveBitFields: true                     # Better overview (but might make editing harder)
AlignConsecutiveDeclarations: false                 # Better Overview, as otherwise we would separate a identifier from its type
AlignEscapedNewlines: Left                          # Better Overview
AlignOperands: AlignAfterOperator                   # Better overview
AlignTrailingComments:
    Kind: Always                                    # Better overview
AllowAllArgumentsOnNextLine: false                  # Better overview
AllowAllParametersOfDeclarationOnNextLine: false    # Better overview
AllowShortBlocksOnASingleLine: Empty                # Better overview
AllowShortCaseLabelsOnASingleLine: false            # Better overview
AllowShortEnumsOnASingleLine: false                 # Better overview
AllowShortFunctionsOnASingleLine: Empty             # Better overview
AllowShortIfStatementsOnASingleLine: Never          # Better overview
AllowShortLambdasOnASingleLine: Empty               # Better overview
AllowShortLoopsOnASingleLine: false                 # Better overview
AlwaysBreakAfterReturnType: None                    # Don't produce an unnecessary empty line
AlwaysBreakBeforeMultilineStrings: true             # Better overview
AlwaysBreakTemplateDeclarations: Yes                # Better overview
BinPackArguments: false                             # Better overview
BinPackParameters: false                            # Better overview
BitFieldColonSpacing: Both                          # Better overview
BraceWrapping:
    AfterCaseLabel: false                           # Don't produce an unnecessary empty line
    AfterClass: false                               # Don't produce an unnecessary empty line
    AfterControlStatement: Never                    # Don't produce an unnecessary empty line
    AfterEnum: false                                # Don't produce an unnecessary empty line
    AfterFunction: false                            # Don't produce an unnecessary empty line
    AfterNamespace: false                           # Don't produce an unnecessary empty line
    AfterObjCDeclaration: false                     # Don't produce an unnecessary empty line
    AfterStruct: false                              # Don't produce an unnecessary empty line
    AfterUnion: false                               # Don't produce an unnecessary empty line
    AfterExternBlock: false                         # Don't produce an unnecessary empty line
    BeforeCatch: false                              # Don't produce an unnecessary empty line
    BeforeElse: false                               # Don't produce an unnecessary empty line
    BeforeLambdaBody: false                         # Don't produce an unnecessary empty line
    BeforeWhile: false                              # Don't produce an unnecessary empty line
    IndentBraces: false                             # Don't produce an unnecessary empty line
    SplitEmptyFunction: false                       # Don't produce an unnecessary empty line
    SplitEmptyRecord: false                         # Don't produce an unnecessary empty line
    SplitEmptyNamespace: false                      # Don't produce an unnecessary empty line
BreakAfterAttributes: Never                         # Don't produce an unnecessary empty line
BreakBeforeBinaryOperators: NonAssignment           # Allows easier out-commenting of single parts of assignments
BreakBeforeBraces: Attach                           # Don't produce an unnecessary empty line
BreakBeforeConceptDeclarations: true                # Better overview
BreakBeforeTernaryOperators: true                   # Better overview
BreakConstructorInitializers: BeforeComma           # Better overview and easier out-commenting of single initializers
BreakInheritanceList: BeforeComma                   # Better overview and easier out-commenting of base classes
BreakStringLiterals: false                          # Avoid config-based wrapping of strings (as it actually depends on the users screen size how wrapping should be applied)
ColumnLimit: 1000                                   # No limit (use high number to enforce removal of existing breaks); Avoid config-based wrapping of strings (as it actually depends on the users screen size how wrapping should be applied)
CompactNamespaces: false                            # Better overview
Cpp11BracedListStyle: true                          # Better overview
DeriveLineEnding: false                             # Formatting should be fixed, not derived
DerivePointerAlignment: false                       # Formatting should be fixed, not derived
EmptyLineAfterAccessModifier: Never                 # Don't produce an unnecessary empty line
EmptyLineBeforeAccessModifier: Always               # Here empty lines help overview, as they clearly make the current access modifier more visible
FixNamespaceComments: true                          # Better overview
IncludeBlocks: Regroup                              # Better overview
IndentAccessModifiers: false                        # As members will be intended, this separates access modifiers from members more clearly
IndentCaseBlocks: false                             # We don't wrap braces here, so intend would move closing brace out of vertical line
IndentCaseLabels: true                              # Better overview, as it's visible, that case is inside switch
IndentExternBlock: Indent                           # Better overview
IndentGotoLabels: true                              # Better overview, as otherwise e.gt breaks would break out intendation
IndentPPDirectives: AfterHash                       # Better overview, as hash tag still marks post processing, but the directives are intended
IndentRequiresClause: false                         #Intend would break statement out of vertical line
IndentWidth: 4                                      # Make tab indentation work
IndentWrappedFunctionNames: true                    # Better overview, as the breaking of function name is marked
InsertBraces: false                                 # Done by clang-tidy #Better overview and maintaining of code, as additional statements can be easily added. WARNING: May break code. Better directly avoid clauses without braces
KeepEmptyLinesAtTheStartOfBlocks: false             # Remove an unnecessary empty line
LambdaBodyIndentation: Signature                    # Better overview
NamespaceIndentation: Inner                         # Avoid having most of the code intended if we have a big namespace
PackConstructorInitializers: Never                  # Better overview
PointerAlignment: Left                              # Better overview, as star is part of the type
QualifierAlignment: Leave                           # clang-format is not able to handle this without breaking code
ReferenceAlignment: Left                            # Better overview, as ampersand is part of the type
ReflowComments: false                               # I don't know, what clang-format is doing here, but it looks bad: Avoid config-based wrapping of strings (as it actually depends on the users screen size how wrapping should be applied)
RequiresClausePosition: OwnLine                     # Better overview
RequiresExpressionIndentation: OuterScope           # Better overview
SeparateDefinitionBlocks: Leave                     # Allow user to specify that on his own. May be used to group some blocks together that belong together, while separating other blocks
ShortNamespaceLines: 0                              # Better overview, as namespaces are clearly marked by closing comment and opening statement
SortIncludes: CaseSensitive                         # Better overview. TODO: Maybe change that if it causes problems
SortUsingDeclarations: true                         # Better overview. TODO: Maybe change that if it causes problems
SpaceAfterCStyleCast: true                          # Better overview
SpaceAfterLogicalNot: false                         # Avoid unnecessary space, cause actually the unary operator belongs to the identifier
SpaceAfterTemplateKeyword: false                    # Space would separate template from it's parameters
SpaceAroundPointerQualifiers: Default               # Don't known why we should change this. TODO: Reevaluate?
SpaceBeforeAssignmentOperators: true                # Better overview, as we separate identifier from operator
SpaceBeforeCaseColon: false                         # Avoid unnecessary space
SpaceBeforeCpp11BracedList: true                    # Better overview
SpaceBeforeCtorInitializerColon: true               # Better overview, as we mark more clearly, where initializer list starts
SpaceBeforeInheritanceColon: true                   # Better overview, as we mark more clearly, where base class list starts
SpaceBeforeParens: Never                            # Avoid unnecessary space
SpaceBeforeRangeBasedForLoopColon: false            # Avoid unnecessary space
SpaceBeforeSquareBrackets: false                    # Avoid unnecessary space
SpaceInEmptyBlock: false                            # Avoid unnecessary space
SpaceInEmptyParentheses: false                      # Avoid unnecessary space
SpacesBeforeTrailingComments: 0                     # Avoid unnecessary space
SpacesInAngles: Never                               # Avoid unnecessary space
SpacesInCStyleCastParentheses: false                # Avoid unnecessary space
SpacesInConditionalStatement: false                 # Avoid unnecessary space
SpacesInParentheses: false                          # Avoid unnecessary space
SpacesInSquareBrackets: false                       # Avoid unnecessary space
TabWidth: 4                                         # Make tab indentation work
UseCRLF: true                                       # Better compatibility
UseTab: Always                                      # Use tabs where we can