On Fri, 2 Dec 2011 10:53:55 +0530, Rustom Mody wrote:

I am using haskell inside emacs with the usual setup ie .hs file in
one window, ghci in another.

Now the most usual workflow one would do is to load the file into ghci
(C-c C-l) and try out something in ghci.
A small niggle is that after the C-c C-l Ive to manually switch to the
other window (current window does not switch to ghci automatically)
 This seems to be a strange default

Actually I prefer it this way because I can check often if my types are OK, or that I don't have a typo.
You can also rebind C-c C-l to execute C-x o after it.

More importantly the state of the workspace in ghci seems to get
messed up unless I do:
0. Prepare some code in .hs
2. Switch to ghci
3. Clear the ghci workspace with :m

 4. switch back to .hs
5. C-c C-l
6. Switch to ghci to try out new code

Is there something I am missing?

When I do C-c C-l it recompiles and/or reloads all my modules and wipes all the variables I had defined before, so I think steps 0 to 4 are not needed.