On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 8:01 PM, Hamish Mackenzie
I use Leksah and have done since I started contributing to it. The best way to make it work for you is to use Leksah to fix what you don't like about Leksah ;-) Failing that giving good feedback about bugs and missing features is the next best thing.
I did check the bug/feature tracker, and most issues I have are already there, but with a low priority. I could try to contribute, but I'm both lazy and unsure I can be of help
On 3 Aug 2010, at 18:48, David Virebayre wrote:
Trying code completion in comments on string constants, for example. Code completion makes the text jump if you're editing near the bottom of the editor area.
I like the "tocandy" feature but then it breaks alignment if you open the file in another editor. Something probably fixable by editing the candy file.
Just out of interest which of the candy replacements caused problems. Some of them (such as ->) already are set to include spaces to pad out differences.
For example, . Here's an example without, and with candy : listeEtageres = flip zip [1..] -- on les numérote . nub -- on élimine les doublons . sort -- on les trie . map simple -- on ne garde que le type et la position $ listeEtagTot -- on part de la liste totale des étagères where simple (_arm,tpe,pos) = (tpe,pos) f n (t,p) = (n,t,p) -------------------------------- listeEtageres = flip zip [1..] -- on les numérote ∘nub -- on élimine les doublons ∘sort -- on les trie ∘map simple -- on ne garde que le type et la position $ listeEtagTot -- on part de la liste totale des étagères where simple (_arm,tpe,pos) = (tpe,pos) f n (t,p) = (n,t,p) -------------------------------------------
Does your existing editor handle candy better? If so how? It doesn't handle them at all :)
Thanks for the feedback, please let us know if you think of anything else.
This is an example of how i'm confused. In this example, I'm trying to load a single file. It's for test purposes only, I only need it made by ghc --make, I don't need a cabal package. $ cd code/euler $ leksah Euler.hs leksah loads with my previous package loaded. Here, I hoped it'd open the file I mentionned on the command line. Now, I need to close the package or workspace I'm working on, but I'm not sure which. as there's no such option in the Package menu, I suppose I have to close the workspace. I close it, but my source file remains open. I close it. Since I want to see if 'leksah file' works, I close leksah and I'm back at the shell. $ leksah Euler.hs I back again in leksah, this time with no package/workspace opened, but my Euler.hs file did not open either. back to the shell again $ leksah -v Leksah the Haskell IDE, version 0.8.0.6 $ leksah --help Leksah the Haskell IDE Usage: leksah [OPTION...] files... -v --version Show the version number of ide -l NAME --loadSession=NAME Load session -h --help Display command line options -e Verbosity --verbosity=Verbosity One of DEBUG, INFO, NOTICE, WARNING, ERROR, CRITICAL, ALERT, EMERGENCY According to this help, I should be able to give it a file on the commande line, but it seems it does nothing. No message to tell me what's wrong. Also, there's an option to load a session. What's a session ? the IDE tells of workspace and package, how is that related to sessions ? anyway, back to leksah. I open my file Euler.hs. I can't seem to use the browser if I don't define a package. I click several times the menu Package->New package, but nothing happens I click also Package->Edit package. After a few clicks, I try Package->Edit flags and leksah exits without warning. On the shell, I see ------ Needs an open workspace Needs an open workspace No active package to edit Needs an open workspace Needs an open workspace No active package to edit leksah: Can't get pane ***lost connection ***lost last connection - exiting leksah-server: ExitSuccess ***lost last connection - waiting ExitSuccess ---- So I understand why the package menus didn't work, but there was no alert while I was in leksah. And it did crash when I clicked on Package->Edit flags (reproductible) Now I create a workspace since I have to. On the browser I still don't have access to my file. Make workspace does nothing, and tells me nothing. I suspect I need a package. So I'm creating a package. When I click save, it creates a Main.hs file for me. Right now I'm kind of annoyed, I just wanted to edit Euler.hs, add another problem to it, compile, run, and get on with something else. That's usually where I close leksah, and lauch kate. For another programs (that compile fine with ghc --make), I didn't bother making the package. But I had to find out the package dependencies by building, checking where it fails, and trying to add a package to the dependency list. Maybe there's a better way, didn't find it.
As well as the google forum we now also have #leksah on IRC.
I'm subscribed on the mailing list, it seems inactive. I'll find and have a look at the forum. David.