clang-format.executable in settings.json does not work with vscode 1.63.2

[maestudillo]

Hi all,

I am trying to set clang-format.executable in settings.json to look for clang-format executable path, but it does not work.

My current vscode version is 1.63.2

Is there any way to configure in settings.json a relative path to the project where it is clang format executable?

Thanks in advance

[colin-grant-work]

One point of interest here is that the configuration specification for the clang-format.executable preferences in this repo is incorrect. Although preferences in settings.json are keyed on long, .-separated strings, internally VSCode turns them into an object tree. That means that VSCode can't / won't handle a.b with a value and a.b.* with a value, so this is impossible:

vscode-clang-format/package.json

Lines 53 to 72 in 90ecd10

	"clang-format.executable": {
	"type": "string",
	"default": "clang-format",
	"description": "clang-format executable path"
	},
	"clang-format.executable.windows": {
	"type": "string",
	"default": "",
	"description": "clang-format executable path on Windows"
	},
	"clang-format.executable.linux": {
	"type": "string",
	"default": "",
	"description": "clang-format executable path on Linux"
	},
	"clang-format.executable.osx": {
	"type": "string",
	"default": "",
	"description": "clang-format executable path on macOS"
	},

It appears that VSCode is accepting clang-format.executable and ignoring clang-format.executable.* - they don't appear in the settings UI, and they don't appear in the schema used for the settings.json file: