As some of you know, our refactoring project here at UKC has just started (at long last). Of course, it will take some time before this leads to concrete artifacts in terms of detailed refactoring catalogues and prototype tools, but we would like to know a bit more about the environment into which any such refactoring tools would have to fit. After all, you might have different development habits and tools than we do;-) So it would be great if you could spare a few minutes to fill in the following survey and send it back to <refactor-fp@ukc.ac.uk> (reply-to should be set?). We'll summarize to this list. We will try to keep you involved in later stages of the project as well, e.g., to ask for input on what refactorings you'd find most useful, but if you'd like to share your thoughts on this earlier, feel free to email us. Thanks for your input, Claus "Refactoring Functional Programs" http://www.cs.ukc.ac.uk/research/groups/tcs/fp/Refactor/ ----------July 2002---------------------- SURVEY - Haskell editing 1. When developing Haskell programs, - which OS-platforms do you work on? - which Haskell implementations are you using (please indicate rough version info: "whatever", "latest source release", "latest binary release", "latest CVS", "latest stable version", ..)? Hugs98 GHC nhc98 .. - to what extent do you use (which?) features outside Haskell 98? class/instance-restrictions existential types arrow notation .. - what editors, IDEs or source-manipulation tools are you using? - editors Vim Emacs .. - tag-file generators HaskTags .. - documentation generators Haddock .. - pre-processors DrIFT cpp .. - revision control manual CVS bitkeeper .. - .. 2. To what extent are your editors/IDEs Haskell-aware? - what Haskell-specific functionality do they offer? syntax highlighting pretty-printing tag-files permitting jump-to-definition syntax-aware movements (to next definition/expression/..) .. - what non-Haskell-specific editing functionality do you find most helpful when developing Haskell programs? matching of parentheses macro recording and playback (what do you use these for?) integration with external tools (which ones?) .. - what Haskell-specific editing functionality do you you miss most? .. - what interface options does your editor/IDE offer for integration of external tools (brief explanations or pointers to detailed documentations would be great)? coarse-grained (piping text through formatters, spell-checkers; preparation of tag files, ..) fine-grained (bi-directional access, i.e., editor can use external functionality, and external tools can use editor functionality) scripting (to weave it all together)