Hi, I've recently started using Yi, the haskell editor. I found it slightly non-trivial to get started, so I've written up my installation method and a "beginners guide" tutorial which I hope will be of interest to other people who'd like to try Yi. It lives at: http://nobugs.org/developer/yi/ Let me know if it's useful or if you have suggestions (to andy@nobugs.org) Andrew -- - http://www.nobugs.org -
Your Yi editor tutorial looks like a fascinating idea,
but I use Mac OS X (10.2.8 Jaguar, soon to be upgraded
to 10.5.x Leopard) at home, and Windows XP at work,
while your tutorial is based on Ubuntu and the bash
shell.
A few questions:
1) Do you have any versions of your Yi tutorial for
Mac OS X or Windows XP; if not, are there any plans
for such tutorials in the future?
2) On your tutorial top page
(http://nobugs.org/developer/yi/), you mentioned that
you had first learned Haskell in 2001 from _The
Haskell School of Expression_ by Paul Hudak. I also
tried studying that book, and found it very
interesting (especially with its focus on multimedia
examples), but unfortunately got stuck on an exercise
in Chapter 2 that required trigonometry, which I had
forgotten from lack of use and didn't have time to
review. Also, I wanted to study it online, and had
purchased the book (and thus paid the licensing fee),
but was unable to find an online version. Do you have
any suggestions for online books with the same flavor
that require less domain-specific knowledge;
alternatively, do you have any suggestions for online
material that precisely covers the domain-specific
knowledge assumed by that book?
Benjamin L. Russell
--- Andrew Birkett
Hi,
I've recently started using Yi, the haskell editor. I found it slightly non-trivial to get started, so I've written up my installation method and a "beginners guide" tutorial which I hope will be of interest to other people who'd like to try Yi. It lives at:
http://nobugs.org/developer/yi/
Let me know if it's useful or if you have suggestions (to andy@nobugs.org)
Andrew -- - http://www.nobugs.org - _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
On 2008.01.15 22:54:08 -0800, "Benjamin L. Russell"
Your Yi editor tutorial looks like a fascinating idea, but I use Mac OS X (10.2.8 Jaguar, soon to be upgraded to 10.5.x Leopard) at home, and Windows XP at work, while your tutorial is based on Ubuntu and the bash shell.
A few questions:
1) Do you have any versions of your Yi tutorial for Mac OS X or Windows XP; if not, are there any plans for such tutorials in the future?
I suspect you would have a hard time running on Windows XP: the cabal file currently declares a dependency on 'unix' because the VTY interface needs it, and also because the Dired module needs System.Posix.Users (to look up file owners). So at the very least you'd need to edit those out.
2) On your tutorial top page (http://nobugs.org/developer/yi/), you mentioned that you had first learned Haskell in 2001 from _The Haskell School of Expression_ by Paul Hudak. I also tried studying that book, and found it very interesting (especially with its focus on multimedia examples), but unfortunately got stuck on an exercise in Chapter 2 that required trigonometry, which I had forgotten from lack of use and didn't have time to review. Also, I wanted to study it online, and had purchased the book (and thus paid the licensing fee), but was unable to find an online version. Do you have any suggestions for online books with the same flavor that require less domain-specific knowledge; alternatively, do you have any suggestions for online material that precisely covers the domain-specific knowledge assumed by that book?
Benjamin L. Russell
-- gwern NAVCM Area51 M.P.R.I. Misawa Manfurov CACI Internet rapnel W3 HF
First of all, Andrew: Thanks! That was really interesting. Benjamin L. Russell wrote:
Your Yi editor tutorial looks like a fascinating idea, but I use Mac OS X (10.2.8 Jaguar, soon to be upgraded to 10.5.x Leopard) at home, and Windows XP at work, while your tutorial is based on Ubuntu and the bash shell.
A few questions:
1) Do you have any versions of your Yi tutorial for Mac OS X or Windows XP; if not, are there any plans for such tutorials in the future?
Didn't look to me very ubuntu specific. I bet it would work out very similarly on OS X. WinXP is something else, as gwern observed.... J
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