Claus Reinke
Does anyone know if/where I can find a specification for the .hi files generated by GHC? I ask because I want to write an omni-completion plugin for Vim to make Haskell hacking a bit nicer.
you might find it easier to use GHCi's :browse command
$ ghc -e ':browse Control.Concurrent.MVar' modifyMVar :: MVar a -> (a -> IO (a, b)) -> IO b modifyMVar_ :: MVar a -> (a -> IO a) -> IO () readMVar :: MVar a -> IO a swapMVar :: MVar a -> a -> IO a withMVar :: MVar a -> (a -> IO b) -> IO b data MVar a = GHC.IOBase.MVar (GHC.Prim.MVar# GHC.Prim.RealWorld a) addMVarFinalizer :: MVar a -> IO () -> IO () isEmptyMVar :: MVar a -> IO Bool newEmptyMVar :: IO (MVar a) newMVar :: a -> IO (MVar a) putMVar :: MVar a -> a -> IO () takeMVar :: MVar a -> IO a tryPutMVar :: MVar a -> a -> IO Bool tryTakeMVar :: MVar a -> IO (Maybe a)
that is what the haskell mode plugins for vim use, for one of their completion modes, anyway;-)
http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/~cr3/toolbox/haskell/Vim/
(actually, that completion is wrt to imported identifiers, so we simply do a ':browse *
'; another completion mode is based on haddock indices, and then there are the standard occurs-in-imported-source-files and occurs-in-tags-file completions) claus
Wow! Thanks for saving me a ton of work, everyone!