How to automatically connect to host:port

[krystalcode]

I have the following in my config, in order to connect to the server automatically when a file is loaded in a buffer.

(use-package eglot
  :ensure t
  :config
  (add-to-list 'eglot-servers-program '((php-mode phps-mode) "phpactor" "8890"))
  :hook
  (php-mode . eglot-ensure)
  (phps-mode . eglot-ensure))

This works - without the port - if I have the server (phpactor) installed locally and called as a program.

However, I want to connect via host/port. In this case, phpactor is the host and 8890 is the port. The script above does not work.

Is "phpactor" "8890" not the correct syntax? This page states (host port args…). Tried "phpactor:8890", "phpactor:" "8890" as well, no luck. It fails: "[eglot] warning Searching for program: No such file or directory, phpactor:8890".

I have to manually do M-x eglot, I get "[eglot] I guess you want to run phpactor 8890, but I can't find phpactor in PATH!. Enter program to execute (or :):", I enter phpactor:8890, then it works.

Can somebody document the correct way to do this?

[krystalcode]

I looked at the code and found this (gdscript-mode . ("localhost" 6008)). It shined upon me to try an integer instead, the following works.

(add-to-list 'eglot-servers-program '((php-mode phps-mode) "phpactor" 8890))

Looking at the documentation it says: "Here host is a string and port is a positive integer" so I guess it's documented there.