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vim: Maybe suggest using compile_commands.json instead of platformio init?

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Description

The vim documentation

https://github.com/platformio/platformio-docs/blob/develop/integration/ide/vim.rst

suggests generating a .ccls file via pio init. For me, this wasn't working, as I was getting "declaration not found" (using e.g. :LspPeekDeclaration) only. What did help for me was running pio run -t compiledb.

I'm not sure why, running ccls --index=. with the pio-ide-vim approach suggests only my own files are indexed, not the library ones.
With the compiledb approach (and deleting .ccls), libraries are indexed as well.

Should the documentation be updated?

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Start with integration/ide/vim.rst and compare its pio init/.ccls instructions with the reported pio run -t compiledb workflow. Check whether the documentation should describe compile_commands.json for library indexing, then verify the revised guidance with the cited ccls and Vim LSP commands.

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Tech stack
vim
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documentation
Issue type
Documentation
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2/5
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1-3 hours
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