Re: [Haskell-cafe] Best text editor

There used to be Visual Haskell - an extension to Visual Studio - but that never took off. Too bad, because these days you can download the freely available Visual Studio Shellhttp://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vsx2008/products/bb933751.aspx , and Visual Haskell had some unique features (such as hovering tooltips showing types) that are now found in the F# editor, and should now be easier to implement with the recent GHC API (I guess). Maybe this is a good Google Summer Of Code project; getting Visual Haskell up and running again with Visual Studio Shell... On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 12:06 AM, Michael P Mossey wrote:

Ketil Malde wrote:

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Michael Mossey writes:

I'm a beginner, but I'll chime in and say I use Emacs with

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haskell-mode. It's auto-indentation is a bit complex in behavior which is unappealing (I feel like I never know what it's going to do when I hit tab), but I would be curious what someone with more experience feels about that.

Just keep hitting tab until you have the indentation you want.

-k

Well, that's a bit like driving a car and saying, "Keep turning the wheel back and forth until the car goes in the direction you want." Seriously, good user interfaces have simple, predictable behavior. Also, very often you never get the indentation you want no matter how many times you hit tab. Of course, I'm grateful to have a haskell-mode at all, and the syntax highlighting is helpful, so I don't want to complain too much. I tried switching to the "simple indentation mode" but I can't tell the difference.

I would like a mode that advances to the right in a simple way (checks lines above for alignment positions, and advances one position at a time). Maybe I'll write one. I do have a bit of experience with emacs lisp.

Thanks, Mike

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