Re: [Haskell-cafe] Emacs (was stack and the Atom editor)

On 10 April 2016 at 17:36, Rustom Mody wrote:

On Sun, Apr 10, 2016 at 7:29 AM, Thomas Koster wrote:

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If I can't make Atom work for me, I will drop it just as fast as I dropped Emacs. Spacemacs was suggested to me off-list; if it addresses my complaints about Emacs, I might give it a chance. But Atom is the topic of this thread, so lest this thread descend into a text editor flame war, I suggest we stop talking about Emacs (or Vim, or Eclipse, or anything else).

[Note the changed subject line :-) ]

Ive been having a great deal of confusion/trouble with emacs haskell-mode of late. No this is not a gripe about haskell-mode Just that I find myself confused over

The old comint interface and new λ one -- when does which kick in

I don't think the old comint interface is used at all any more (but may still be present for backwards-compatibility).

Basic setups -- is it called haskell-mode/haskell-emacs or what?

haskell-emacs was Chris Done's first attempt at writing a new Haskell mdoe for Emacs before he merged it into haskell-mode proper; so you probably don't want to use haskell-emacs any more (it's rather old and quite probably bitrotted).

I dont quite know when things stopped working/being comfortable/familiar but I remember it as having nothing to do with haskell -- updating org mode or some such

? org-mode can be a pain to upgrade due to compilations trying to use already loaded/present versions, but installing haskell-mode via package.el is rather easy.

Just that I am supposed to be (at least out here!!) an emacs and haskell expert and while showing others how to get started I am often finding my own setups embarrassingly broken

Any tips for an old emacs-geezer?

Chris Done has a sample config: https://github.com/chrisdone/emacs-haskell-config/ -- Ivan Lazar Miljenovic Ivan.Miljenovic@gmail.com http://IvanMiljenovic.wordpress.com