Command Line Overview
clice is one binary. Editors launch clice serve and talk to it over LSP; the other subcommands drive the same engine from a terminal, sharing its compilation database handling, caches and index.
| Command | What it does | Page |
|---|---|---|
serve | Start the language server. Editors do this for you, see the editor setup. | editors |
lint | Run clang-tidy over every translation unit with a worker pool. | lint |
index | Index a workspace ahead of time so the server starts warm. | index |
format | Format the workspace's files with clang-format. | format |
inspect | Run one feature on source files and print the raw result as JSON. | |
query | Ask the persisted index about symbols, references, call graphs and files. | query |
refactor | Rename a symbol across the workspace from the persisted index. | refactor |
analyze | Report facts for refactoring, such as module dependencies and cycles. | analyze |
modulize | Wrap third-party libraries as C++20 modules over their headers. | modulize |
inspect works today but has no page yet; its options are documented by clice inspect --help.
serve, index, lint, format, inspect, query, refactor, analyze and modulize take --configuration <tag> to pin the build configuration for the run, over the selection persisted from the editor; see switching configurations.