Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell tutorial for pseudo users?

On Fri, 2009-02-06 at 08:30 +0100, Achim Schneider wrote:

Jonathan Cast wrote:

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On Mon, 2009-02-02 at 20:55 +0000, Andrew Coppin wrote:

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Deniz Dogan wrote:

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Learn You a Haskell for Great Good (http://learnyouahaskell.com/)

Mmm, interesting.

Does anybody else think it would be neat if GHCi really did colourise your input like that?

Bleah. More terminal hacking to break and/or slow Emacs to a crawl? No thanks.

A while ago, I'd say that emacs looks like a decent operating system, sadly lacking a decent editor.

I always wonder how many people who say that have actually *tried* Emacs' editor.

Now it seems that it's even lacking a decent terminal.

Actually, I think the issue is just that Emacs' ANSI color parsing code is effectively O(n^2); when I really, really need colored output I run the command in a separate window (with B&W output) and switch major modes. Emacs' terminal is also lacking all the modern conveniences, like addressable cursors and builtin line-editing designed for 1970s printing terminals and practically no searching capabilities. Alternatively, you could say it's incompatible with modern Unix's biggest mistakes and worst legacy issues.

I'm really not sure what to make of all that: Would you recommend using it?

Of course. It sucks the least of any solution I've tried. Barely.

Eternal flamewars cast aside, what about integrating such a thing into yi? Yi has the advantage of working for both masochists _and_ efficient typists.

Yi has a terminal? Maybe I should try it again. jcc