30 Nov
2020
30 Nov
'20
5:26 p.m.
On Mon, 30 Nov 2020 at 21:42, Henning Thielemann < lemming@henning-thielemann.de> wrote:
On Mon, 30 Nov 2020, Tikhon Jelvis wrote:
Biggest feature I want is automated refactoring.
Any such refactoring tool would require a (configurable) formatting and indentation tool, because even simple search&replace will break your layout. Thus, a good code formatter would be an even more important feature of the IDE.
The ghc-exactprint library (as used in retrie, hlint refactors and HaRe) makes it so you can change the AST in a refactoring and preserve formatting/layout in the result. Alan