Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Hackage on Linux

C. McCann wrote:

On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 7:40 AM, Andrew Coppin wrote:

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Unfortunately, I haven't found anything for Windows yet which has syntax hilighting for Haskell.

I use SciTE, which has hilighting for a bazillion languages (including XML and JSON), but not Haskell sadly.

Veering somewhat offtopic, but last time I checked, SciTE does have lexer support for Haskell, it just doesn't actually include (for unknown reasons) a language properties file to go with it.

OK. Well maybe it's just the version I've got then? Or maybe, as you say, because it's not enabled I don't know it's there.

If you give it one, syntax highlighting mostly works. You can write your own if you like--the .properties files have a pretty simple "property.name=value" syntax, which is mildly amusing in the context of this email thread--or borrow someone else's, such as this one: http://www4.in.tum.de/~haftmann/resources/haskell.properties A few tweaks in the global properties are required to get everything working--I don't remember the details, but it didn't take me long to figure it out.

Ah yes. The reason I seldom update SciTE is that it then takes hours to put all the configuration back to the way I like it. (Especially if option names have changed or defaults are different now.) SciTE is a nice editor, but not especially well documented. (And, what, they haven't made a configuration editor yet? :-P )