Outline view is always empty

[guy-rouillier]

I'm attempting to work in a large codebase with which I'm not familiar. So, I thought the Outline tab would help me with this by listing all the functions in a source file. Unfortunately, I cannot get it to show anything. I have the Outline tab showing in the Workspace view on the left. I'm looking at the source code for the Evolution email program, which is all C source, not C++. I also tried open a small, simple C++ project with only a single source file; the Outline tab continues to show nothing

Here's my environment:

Ubuntu MATE 24.04.4 LTS
Codelite 17.0.0 ( installed a binary of 18.2, and encountered the same issue. I went back to 10.0 because 18.2 crashes frequently.)

I've tried opening several tabs with different source files, and switching back and forth among them, since I found a discussion that said this has helped some people get the outline view working. Unfortunately, this did not change anything for me. I also tried using the Search menu, Quick Outline entry, and also the corresponding key sequence ctrl+shift+O with the source window having the focus. None of these actions produced anything in the Outline view.

Perhaps I'm not using this function correctly.

[eranif]

Hi Guy,
I am using 18.3.0 (which I released yesterday).
I enabled the outline tab (it is DISABLED for me by default), as I use the more convenient (IMO) Quick Outline View - Ctrl-Shift-O.

Anyways, it works as expected.
To make sure that it works:

• Do you have a language server configured properly? - all symbols are coming from that module. So make sure that clangd is enabled and is working properly for you. If it does not, than this is the root cause.
• Make sure that you are working within a workspace (any workspace will do, I recommend using the File-System Workspace).

https://docs.codelite.org/plugins/lsp/#clangd-ccobjective-c

[guy-rouillier]

Thank you, Eran. That was my issue. Once I followed directions and installed the language server, outline view is now working. I appreciate your help.