LinLog

As you may or may not know, I've become an avid Vim user.  I use it for work and home, having given up on PHPStorm a couple of years ago.

But one of the things that PHPStorm did automatically, which was quite handy, was to add PHPDoc comments to functions automatically.  This is kinda nice because, let's face it, unless you're writing a long description, most of a docblock is just typing.  You duplicate the parameters and return signature and, if the names and types are pretty obvious (which they should be), then there's not really much to say.  But having them is part of the coding standard, so you can't just skip them, even though they don't add much.

Fortunately, Vim has a plugin for that, known as PDV.  It will read the declaration of a function (or class, or a few other things) and auto-generate a docblock for you.  This is nice, but the extension was a little out of date - it hadn't been updated to support return type annotations.  There was a pending pull request to add that, but it hadn't been merged.  I'm not sure why - apparently that repo is dead.

So I decided to just create my own fork and merge the outstanding pull requests.  Now I have a version that supports modern type annotations, which is nice.  While I was at it, I also added an alternative set of templates for NaturalDocs doc comments.  I use NaturalDocs for LnBlog, so I figured it would be nice to be able to auto-generate my docblocks there too.  All I needed to do as add a line to my Sauce config to change the PDV template path.