Disabling Language Injection in PhpStorm

Bonesnap

So PhpStorm is pretty awesome, but it has a feature that I find rather distracting: language injections. I have searched online and tried a number of different things to disable this feature but I cannot seem to make it go away. I know there are some PhpStorm users here, so I thought I'd throw it out there and see if anyone has any insight. So far I have tried:

Unchecking all the language injection checkboxes in the settings under language injections.
Turning off the very distracting highlighting, though this is obviously just an aesthetics thing.
Actually disabling the bundled IntelliLang plugin that (according to the PhpStorm documentation) is required to allow the language injection to work. Disabling this plugin even removes the language injection selection from the settings.
After making these changes I have restarted the application to no avail.

It appears that some of the language injections have disappeared, though. For example in PHP if I try to echo HTML markup, it's now just a string. Others haven't gone away. For example CSS "code" in a jQuery selector. If I write:

$('div.container div.inner-element').something().something();

The selector has its colour changed because it detects CSS. Likewise I had a string in JavaScript where I had to put a '<br />' in the middle of it, and the colour changed because it detected HTML. I don't want this to happen. I can understand where it might be useful for some people, but when it changes the colour highlighting I find it incredibly distracting. I am looking for strings but instead I see something else. Maybe an underline to indicate it's another language or something, but changing the colouring to me is too intrusive.

Anyway, does anyone have any insight or possibly even tweaking the language injections to be more subtle?

Thanks!

NogDog

When I went into Settings -> Editor -> Language Injections and unchecked everything then clicked OK, it seemed to turn it off successfully (PHPStorm 8.0.3).

Bonesnap

I didn't notice I was using an older version (8.0.1), but I updated it and it still persists. Below is a screen shot of what I am experiencing (not my code).

http://i.imgur.com/0Aa1jfx.png

As you can see some of the selectors are highlighted differently because the IDE detects CSS, even though they're all strings, which should be yellow. In your IDE do you see something similar, or when you disable the language injections the selectors are coloured properly?

NogDog

Is it because of code injection, or simply that it identifies them as different entity types in JavaScript (variable vs. object vs. integer vs. string vs. etc....)? If the latter, then it might be more a question of the syntax highlighting settings for JS?

Bonesnap

I'm not sure, but I don't think it's syntax highlighting. When I click on it and press alt-enter (or clicking the little light bulb) it mentions an injection:

http://i.imgur.com/RbJw310.png

If I choose to disable it, the colouring doesn't change; it just removes that choice from the light bulb menu and unchecks the "Language Injection" checkbox and its child checkbox "Edit Injected Fragment" under Settings -> Intentions. If I go back through the settings and and check the box again, then the choice comes back when pressing alt-enter or clicking the light bulb. The colouring never changes.

I have considered syntax highlighting (thinking maybe there was something regarding selectors in jQuery) but there is nothing that relates to it under the Settings -> Colors & Fonts -> JavaScript. The closest is strings, which should be yellow. For the hell of it I tried double-quotes vs. single-quotes and it made no difference. Another thing that makes me think it's not syntax highlighting is when I am actually typing the selector, at first it starts out as yellow, because it's a string, but by the time I am typing something like "input[type]" or another element, it changes the colour and starts giving me auto-completions from my CSS file.

What OS are you on? Maybe it's related to the OS somehow. 😕

NogDog

I'm on Windows, and I was only looking at PHP code, where turning off all the injection options did make a change in how HTML tags appeared within PHP strings, but I didn't look at any JavaScript (99% of what I do these days is server-side stuff).

Bonesnap

HTML tags have changed as well for me in PHP code (SQL in PHP as well). I guess only certain language injections are disabled. Maybe this is something that will be fixed in the upcoming version 9. Or maybe I'll create a ticket if I have enough time. Since I have successfully turned off the background highlighting it's not such a big deal anymore; that was by far the most distracting part about it.

dalecosp

I am currently evaluating PHPStorm for personal use ... (which means I gotta pay for it if I wanna use it).

Anyone else find it funny that "JetBrains" is a slant rhyme with "NetBeans" ... ? 😃