On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, =?ISO-8859-2?Q? Pawe=B3?= Kot wrote:

Hello,

I'm writing my master thesis. Its subject is 'Haskell Programming Environment'. It is (or rather will be) an extended text editor working in graphical (XFree86) environment designed for Haskell programmers. It will be implemented using Fudgets library. I'm wondering what features would you like to find in such environment. What should be neccessary, what would help, what would make writing programs easier, etc. I have some concepts, but I would like to hear some suggestions from you.

A module/class/instance/library browser perhaps? Acquiring its information from standard libraries and other user defined directories? Extracting comments, module comments, class comments, and implementation details to present them in some consistent way? Supporting incremental compilation, a'la hmake? With intelligent use of colorization, or other useful hints for programmers, for a start? Intelligent inspectors? In short - something that exists for ages in Smalltalk, or in Eiffel development environment, but with Haskell's extra capabilities, limitations and goals in view? I once did something of this sort for Java: + Java browser for Xcoral editor - in C + Bongo based class hierarchy browser - in Java You can find more about it on our web pages. Jan