web-mode VS php-mode

web-mode: https://web-mode.org/

Did you try web-mode? https://github.com/fxbois/web-mode/ It's the mode that made me accept HTML. There are shortcuts to: delete a node, wrap a node with another one, delete an attribute, copy a node, re-indent the buffer, go to the beginning/end of the node…

I’ve started to use emacs in my computer sciences school 30 years ago (EPITA in Paris). The Lab was surrounded by Mips, Sun, Alpha, … great time.

The only weakness of Emacs (according to me) was the lack of a good major mode (module) to edit web template : imagine editing a php block inside a javascript part embedded inside html.

After testing many modes, I started to develop web-mode (http://web-mode.org) that is now compatible with about thirty template engines. What a wondeful trip it was to discover the power of Lisp and what a pleasure it is everyday to know exactly what happens when I hit a key while editing an html file.

I am the only Emacs user in my company (kernix.com) but nothing would make me switch. I can not imagine using an editor that would not open in less than a second (or that would eat hundreds of Mo of RAM)

I Hope Emacs will see a usage surge with the inclusion of tree sitter… editing in emacs will be even faster and more robust. Not sure tree sitter is suitted for multi languages files … but for this you have web-mode ;)

web-mode should be used for .erb files, per their docs

Web Mode has support for razor pages. I used it briefly and it seems to be good. Here are the relevant parts of my config:

web-mode for editing templates

Been using web-mode recently and possess noticed that marked regions are unmarked once the cursor is moved. I use expand-region normally to mark HTML tags and then tried to move up one line and the marked region is cancelled. Using C-SPC to mark regions does not face this issue. Anyone face this issue and solve it? I know there was a similar issue with multiple cursors but ‏‏‎ that was solvable by editing a custom variable found here. Any suggestions are welcomed as I do not even know where to begin to debug this issue. Thanks!

Have you installed https://github.com/emacs-php/php-mode ?

If you configure a VM to use as a web server, emacs can be a nice PHP editor. That way you could install Ubuntu Server on VM software, set up a LAMP stack, and SSH into it from your desktop terminal (I find this to be a nicer interface than working directly on the VM).

php-mode is pretty good combined with lsp-mode. If you are editing PHP files with only PHP script I would go with php-mode. If you are using PHP files with a lot of HTML and PHP I would recommend using web-mode together with the PHP language server.

I opened an issue on the php-mode GitHub repo for this very reason, you can take a look here: https://github.com/emacs-php/php-mode/issues/657. Hopefully that'll give you some workarounds at least until the bug is fixed.