LINE_COMMENT does not give the proper comment string for PHP

[feekApp]

Contributing guidelines

• I have read CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md

Module(s)

mini.snippets

Question

Hi,

currently I'am trying to migrate from luasnip to mini.snippets. On testing I stumbled upon the issue that LINE_COMMENT for PHP uses the block comment string (/*) in stead of the line comment string (//). see

:lua print(vim.bo.commentstring:gsub('%s*%%s.*$', ''))

indeed gives /*, but in luasnip LINE_COMMENT did give //.

Is there a way to set this comment string in mini.snippet for a specific language of is this a bug?

[echasnovski]

The best suggestion is to set 'commentstring' option to '// %s' for php buffers. There are two ways to do that:

• A quick way is to add this line to the 'init.lua': vim.cmd('au FileType php setlocal commentstring=// %s')
• A more proper way is to create file '~/.config/nvim/after/ftplugin/php.lua' and put the following line inside of it: vim.bo.commentstring = '// %s'.

If for some reason there is a need for a 'commentstring' in php files other what is meant to be used as $LINE_COMMENT (which I'd highly recommend against), there is also a workaround of writing custom config.expand.insert that uses custom LINE_COMMENT value for buffers with php filetype.

[feekApp]

Thnx that's working by setting it via ftplugin