nvim-treesitter VS vim-polyglot

Then open the file in your favorite code editor, that is for me neovim btw, you might want to install a treesitter to provide some syntax highlighting although nice but not necessary, in vscode you can install a plugin for the syntax highlighting.

Neovim could use the default regex based grammar that Vim uses for syntax highlighting. But I recommended installing treesitter. This uses a concrete syntax tree to provide more semantic meaning to tokens, allowing enriched (and faster) highlighting.

👉 Tree-sitter plugin for code highlighting.

Treesitter is what makes your neovim colorful. It uses the LSP and colorscheme and colors your variables, keywords and other stuff. To understand how treesitter works and configure treesitter please read the docs. Here is my configuration for treesitter:

nvim-treesitter is a plugin that has been around for 4 years now. A lot of people will say this is essential to your Neovim experience, and I do agree to some extend. It is incredibly useful... as a dependency for other plugins. It allows Neovim to gather more information about source code of the current file, and plugin authors can do really cool things that. For "normal users" like you and me there are some modules we can enable. One of them can be used to enhance the syntax highlight of many programming languages. That I think the feature nvim-treesitter is known for.

I wouldn't really count those. Every editor with treesitter support will have those, it's for treesitter: https://github.com/nvim-treesitter/nvim-treesitter/blob/mast...

nvim-treesitter/nvim-treesitter (to provide a simple and easy way to use the interface for tree-sitter in Neovim and to provide some basic functionality such as highlighting based on it)

nvim-treesitter/nvim-treesitter: Nvim Treesitter configurations and abstraction layer.

I'm currently on an old setup (using coc and polyglot) and nvim v0.6.1. I'll be updating to a more modern setup within next year, using the native lsp and building nvim more frequently. But that's not today.

So I did some digging and I found out that vim-polyglot uses a different syntax file than Vim's default for PHP files. When I loaded vim-polyglot's syntax file into my ~/.vim/syntax, I encountered the same issue as you.

Try this: https://github.com/sheerun/vim-polyglot You can install plugin or copy-paste files for desired filetype

I think you mean vim-polyglot? Great plugin. Pre-treesitter it was indespensible.

Usually this is handled inside the :compiler scripts. vim-polyglot is a collection of ftplugins that includes a bunch of :compiler plugins.

Get polyglot installed in your vimfiles/pack//start folder along with whatever 4 Tim Pope plugins you love the most and :CocInstall your LSP(s)

https://github.com/morhetz/gruvbox and https://github.com/sheerun/vim-polyglot are Vim plugins that work in Neovim, but they don't allow you to use treesitter, so if you don't want to use treesitter use them.