Re: [Haskell-cafe] emacs problem : haskell mode keeps hanging to report types, renders emacs useless

On Sat, Nov 4, 2017 at 3:00 PM, Sven Panne wrote:

2017-11-04 22:39 GMT+01:00 Sean Matthews :

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I have just reinstalled everything. Newest release of emacs, Haskell-pakage and Haskell-mode and Haskell. I have tried to do this as cleanly as possible (via the customise and package install interfaces). Now when I try to edit haskell files, the system keeps freezing to report types. [...]

I don't have a concrete solution for your problem, but instead of fighting with Emacs packages and customizations directly, I would *highly* recommend Spacemacs (http://spacemacs.org/).After using and customizing Emacs for several decades, I switched to Spacemacs some months ago and never looked back. Getting a coherent set of packages for a task, and getting those packages to actually work together requires a non-trivial amount of configuration fiddling. This is what Spacemacs does for you, plus an easy way to update.

+1 for Spacemacs! Have enjoyed using its default layers after years of managing crusty dotfiles. Beware of ghc 8.2 and haskell mode ( https://github.com/haskell/haskell-mode/issues/1553) Mark

Having said that, Spacemacs' Haskell layer works perfectly for me, perhaps you can give it a try. Another hint: Use stack/stackage instead of fiddling around with GHC installations, Cabal, sandboxes etc. for yourself.

Cheers, S.

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