Question

The one thing I really miss in vim is a tiered intellisense support, just like we have one in PHP Eclipse.

For example:

/**
 * Get the config object
 *
 * @return Config
 */
public function getConfig()
{
    return $this->_config;
}

I find this explicit return type setting very useful and time saving feature.

Do we have something similar in vim?

Answer 1

Vim by itself doesn’t really have any intellisense… Instead, it just provides autocompletion. This means that Vim isn’t aware of language, types, etc. It just looks for strings that it can complete.

I’m not familiar with tiered intellisense, but you could try using the Vim Intellisense plugin. It does have language-specific completion and type-checking. It does not have direct support for PHP, but perhaps it will get you closer to your goal.

EDIT Using Vim’s omnifunc, you can get function completion, but there is still no built-in type awareness.