I have a dream.  It's not a little dream.  It's a big dream.  I have a dream that someday I can find a UNIX/Linux text editor for Haskell hacking (and possibly two or three hundred other programming languages, although that's optional) that can give me all of the following:

  1. A real GUI environment that takes into account some of the HID advances made in the past 30 years.  (Emacs and Vim don't count, in other words.)
  2. Good quality syntax highlighting for Haskell that includes all of the usual syntax highlighting goodies, plus:
  3. the ability to seamlessly handle raw Haskell and both common forms of Literate Haskell;
  4. the ability to properly highlight Haddock comments;
  5. the ability to highlight functions and types from libraries (user-expandable) differently from local functions and types.
  6. Line folding to hide and show blocks of code.
  7. Code completion (user-expandable, ideally) for common library functions, type declarations, etc.
  8. Easy, quick access to online documentation for said functions and declarations.
  9. Good (ideally scriptable) access to external utilities for compilation, debugging, profiling, type inference, project management, etc.
  10. A good plug-in system (ideally written in Haskell?) for expansion.

Is there such a beast available out there somewhere?  If not, is such a beast lurking in the background ready to pounce in the near future?
--
Michael T. Richter <ttmrichter@gmail.com> (GoogleTalk: ttmrichter@gmail.com)
I have to wonder why people think that when they can't manage local personnel within easy strangling and shooting distance, then they can manage personnel thousands of miles away that have different languages, cultures, and business rules. (Joe Celko)