Snippets "Class", etc doesn't work in .h file

[lihebi]

When I want to use cl snippet in my c++ project's header file(I prefer to use .h instead of .hpp, and I believe so do many people), I notice that it doesn't work.

The reason is that, although there are .h declarations in both grammars/c.cson and grammars/c++.cson, only .source.c class is added to a .h file in atom. However in snippets, cl is defined for only .source.cpp in snippets/language-c.cson.

It is very common to define Classes in header file, and header files are often used with .h suffix, so I think it makes sense to add support for it.

The easiest way is to just use the snippets for both c files and c++ files instead of dividing some for c++ only. I don't think people will use those snippets "accidentally" in a c file.

[lihebi]

Actually there's another issue for the same reason. Some keywords can't be highlighted in .h file, class for example. So maybe remove .h declaration in the top of grammar/c.cson should be a better solution to solve both of them? That will make .h file to have .source.cpp class in atom.

[thematrixincendies]

Well, thats the old C/C++ issue, because .h is marked as both C and C++. You have the following possibilities:

• Change c.cson and delete the .h extension: This will of course detect all .h files as C++.
• Change the language by hand, just click on the C on the bottom bar (on the right) and select C++: This will only change the language detection for that single file. You will need to change that for the entire project if you want e.g. linter for C++ working for the whole project.

IMO .h should be marked for both languages and it should switch automatically to C++ if keywords like class are detected.