Sublime Text 3 - PHP - object operator and double arrow operator

Question

Recently I've begin moving to sublime text 3 from Netbeans.

I've discovered almost all needed features but still can't find one.

There is a cool feature in Netbeans:

It does the following. If I have such code:

$product = new Product;
$product->someMethod();

I don't need actually to type - and then shift + > to get -> . It's enough just to presss - sign and Netbeans figures out on his own that it should be -> . The same is applied to array.

I understand that Sublime doesn't do as deep code analysis as Netbeans does.

Of course it would perfect solution if it could figure out like Netbeans does.

But I would happy to replace - sign on numpad keyboard to -> always.

I've tried snippets. It looks like this:

It works ok. But only if it goes as the first symbol in the word. But then I need to reference an object referencing never goes first.

I can't believe that all people type manually every time - and shift+> to get referencing the object. There must be better way.

Any ideas? How did you tackle this problem?

Answer 1

Looks like there is no silver bullet which would kill any beast.

Though ST is a cool editor it's just editor, it's good for js, scss,css, python where Netbeans sucks but too bad for php.

Probably I would be happy with ST for PHP if I didn't know that you can get more boosting using full-blown IDE.

So frontend development will be carried on ST and backend on Netbeans.

Edit

Of course I tried the whole bunch of available plugins. This is the list of tried:

Answer 2

To replace the - key with - > in all situations in Sublime Text (meaning if you want to write, for example 1 - 2 , you would have to type 1   - backspace   2 , you can do the following:

• From the Preferences menu in Sublime Text
• Click Keybindings - User
• Write [{ "keys": ["-"], "command": "insert", "args": { "characters": "->" } }] (note that this assumes that you don't already have anything in the user keybinding file. If you do, before the ] at the end of the file, type , and the above without the enclosing [ and ] characters. The file needs to be a valid JSON array of keybindings.)
• Save it
• Try typing - and see the magic

You may be able to do some magic with contexts to get this keybinding only for PHP syntax files, or you could just write a simple Python plugin that your keybinding would execute, which would enter - in the document if it is not a PHP file and -> if it is.