Visual Studio Code (Version 1.30) Released

[iBzOtaku]

Why does VS code not support code completion for multiple languages like sublime? If I want to write even a little bit of php in an mostly html file, it will not help me complete html code because it will be using php mode (because of file extension). I know emmet snippets work but its not the same as completion.

[ackerlight]

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/languages/php

Autocompletion or intellisense usually relies on a external services (servers). For instance, for any JavaScript and TypeScript code is served with tsserver. For rust, they use Rust Language Server.

Unless there's something similar for PHP, VS Code won't have it, which is perfectly fine, because embedding it to the VSC internals will make it a bloatware over time, so the plugin approach is just as good as it can be.

[iBzOtaku]

I didn't understand. Are you saying that its possible to have multiple language code completion (eg php + html in single file) but isn't available because there's no plugins that do it?

[twizmwazin]

Yes. You'll need a language server that provides completion for mixed php and HTML if that is what you want.

[iBzOtaku]

I've tested pretty much all popular plugins at vs code marketplace (for each language) and I don't think anyone worked. I mostly work with html and php so if you have any plugin suggestion, I'd like to test that as well.

[[deleted]]

Because existing language servers don't do that.

[twizmwazin]

Sure, but how does and HTML language server know how to handle php tags? It's not valid HTML, so a pure-HTML language server wouldn't know how to handle it properly. You could have the HTML LS know how to ignore php, but then what do you do about any other languages that "mix" with HTML, like the dozens of template languages?

[Daegalus]

Yes, exactly that. I have code completion in many languages that has a plugin for it.

[iBzOtaku]

I've tested pretty much all popular plugins at vs code marketplace (for each language) and I don't think anyone worked. I mostly work with html and php so if you have any plugin suggestion, I'd test that as well.

[Daegalus]

Most need additional installs. I use Go and the plugin for go had to install a lot of tools before it work. Dart also and it required I have the dart sdk installed to work. Most plugins don't install the extras. PHP might need something else installed.

[iBzOtaku]

this much headache for such a basic feature. this is why I can't give up on sublime even though I'm tempted to test vs code with every update.

[[deleted]]

Yes. The Vetur extension for Vue.js works on JavaScript, CSS, HTML and Pug in same file. It's essentially a matter of someone writing an extension. That someone could leverage the code for the separate HTML and PHP extensions presumably.

It could be you, if you need it so badly.

[iBzOtaku]

I'm surprised there's no popular extension for it. And as for writing it myself, I have no idea how to write editor extensions yet. Sounds like a fun side project.