Hijacking a thread because this is something I've spent a lot of time
working on.
Tyler Romeo <tylerromeo(a)gmail.com> writes:
If I had the time, I would definitely put together
some sort of
.dir-locals.el for MediaWiki, that way we could make better use of Emacs,
since it has a bunch of IDE-like functionality, even if it's not IDEA-level
powerful.
A client wanted to me to help train someone to take over the work for
maintaining their MediaWiki installation. As part of that work, they
asked for an IDE and, knowing that other MW devs used PHPStorm, I
recommended it and they bought a copy for me and the person I was
supposed to train.
PHPStorm has "emacs keybindings" but these are just replacements for the
CUA keybindings. Somethings that I expected the keybindings to invoke,
didn't. (It's been a while since I've used PHPStorm, so I've forgotten
the details.)
In any case, I've found that a lot of what I wanted from PHPStorm could
be implemented in Emacs using the following .dir-locals.el (which I put
above my core and extensions checkouts):
((nil . ((flycheck-phpcs-standard . ".../mediawiki/codesniffer/MediaWiki")
(flycheck-phpmd-rulesets .
(".../mediawiki/messdetector/phpmd-ruleset.xml"))
(mode . flycheck)
(magit-gerrit-ssh-creds . "mah(a)gerrit.wikimedia.org")
)))
The above is in addition to the code-sniffing I already had set up to
put Emacs' php-mode into the MW style. You can see this documented on
[[mw:Manual:Coding_conventions]].
The one thing that PHPStorm lacked (and where Emacs' magit excels) is
dealing with git submodules. Since I make extensive use of submodules
for my MediaWiki work, this set up makes Emacs a much better tool for
working with MediaWiki.
Naturally, I won't claim that what works for me will work for anyone
else. I've spent 15 years in Emacs every day. I was first exposed to
Emacs in the late 80s(!!) so the virus has had a long time to work its
way into my psyche and by now I'm incurable.
Mark.
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