Alas I spoke too soon, and my problem is still there. So it is back to the cafe, looking for suggestions. Here is my problem in more detail:
- I am running a windows system. (note Windows, not Unix, Linux, OS X, or any other Unix-a-like).
- I have a clean emacs installation - only thing I have done is to install haskell-mode using the install-package function.
- I start-up interactive haskell mode (C-c interactive-haskell-mode, C-c C-l (and I get a parsing complaint, but we ignore that)).
[at this point I have a live haskell process that I can interact with]
- I load my file (not large) into haskell.
- Emacs starts persisting in telling me in the Echo region the type of the term under the cursor - all the time - and locks down to do this.
- The type report uses unicode text to do this (note that if I ask for the type with C-c C-t or C-c C-i, I also get the type, but using ascii characters, so it does not appear to be the same functionality that is being triggered - if I turn off haskell-doc then the problem continues).
Anybody any suggestions, recognise this problem, or even just an address where I can submit a bug report?
I cannot be the only person trying to work with haskell mode on windows.
Thanks
Sean Matthews