@dantleech @phpactor

I've set up #neovim with #phpactor (p) and another with #intelephense (i) I used Mason to install each.

What I noticed:

- The calculated root_dir fails for (p); it uses PWD

- BOTH give me signature help and completions (p) is slower and seems to crash on providing signatures for completion.

- BOTH let me jump to definition, though (i) is noticeably faster at this.

- Far fewer diagnostics from phpactor (no static analysis? Perhaps I need to add PHPStan as well?)

I use #intelephense as #lsp plugin in #neovim but I think @phpactor has some features it doesn't.

I tried it once before and can't recall why I went back to just intelephense. Possibly CPU/memory limitations.

Can anyone offer a comparison? Perhaps you use them both at once? How does that work out?

Trying out #helix, coming from #neovim

There's some stuff that looks awesome (multiple cursors, select-within-selection). Some changes will be frustrating due to muscle memory. Some stuff is missing.

At mo, having problems getting helix to recognise that the #lsp #intelephense for #php is actually installed on the system...

Also I've installed as a flatpak and am annoyed I can't type `hx` but have to do `flatpak run com.helix_editor.Helix` (I can alias it, but I need to learn why I need to!)

I wanted to test some #vim issues I was having with #intelephense and #WordPress core functions. So what do I do? Install #NixOS and spend most of the weekend trying to understand/configure it so I can use vim there...

@len@toot.si 🆗 some follow ups - this time successful.

After investigating #lsp log in #spacemacs I've noticed that it is loading #intelephense from node v14.1 that's installed with #node version manager and not from v16.9 which is the current one. So no matter what I did with #npm I wasn't even using the right #intelephense version or maybe the version was right but it was running on an old version of node, whatever.

```
Command "$HOME/.local/bin/phpactor language-server" is present on the path.
Command "$HOME/.nvm/versions/node/v14.1.0/bin/intelephense --stdio" is present on the path.
```

So I've unlinked this version and now I have the autocomplete in #php mode running.

It was a long journey and I'm kind of missing a feeling of accomplishment since the time was only spent to set up #ide to properly work for my reporting project. Now I have to start working on the project itself and I'm already getting kind of tired.

#emacs

🆗 some follow ups. I've uninstalled the #intelephense npm package and I'm now connecting to #lsp provided by #phpactor installed globally.

Sadly I wasn't able to use felixfbecker/language-server (as described in docs) since it's development is discontinued and it is not #php8 compatible.

https://develop.spacemacs.org/layers/+lang/php/README.html

I'm still missing completion and probably some other functionalities I'm unaware of.

If only I'd find & fix the intelephense issue 🙏 .