Hi Amy,

On 19 April 2013 19:13, Amy de Buitléir <amy@nualeargais.ie> wrote:

Jeff Lasslett <jeff.lasslett <at> gmail.com> writes:
> So I find myself playing around with XMonad source code.

Have you seen the "XMonad deconstructed" videos? They're very well done.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63MpfyZUcrU (part 1)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivdyLaH3PhY (part 2)

Yes, I have watched these and i agree with you. They are quite well done. I have found them very helpful. Sadly they don't touch much on X event handling within XMonad, which is what I am most interested in.

> I'd like the editor/IDE to tell me the type of a thing, or at least the
module it is defined in.

Leksah and EclipseFP are two options you might want to consider. You can
find links to them, and information about other options here:

Leksah sound good, although perhaps a little "heavier" than I would like. I'm not a huge fan of eclipse, though I may take a look at eclipsefp.

I myself make do with querying the types in GHCi or Hayoo. I also installed
the command-line version of Hoogle (see
http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Hoogle), which is very useful.

Thanks for this suggestion. The trouble starts for me when I don't know what package something is in. For example ...

*Main> :t guard

<interactive>:1:1: Not in scope: `guard'

I think I looked it up in the index on hackage. It's times like that when I long for a hotkey combo that will tell me package and type info for the item under the cursor.

Thanks,

Jeff