On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 11:48:12AM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:

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Sorry if I've asked this before, but is version 2.0 of haskell-mode on your website really the newest version?

It's the latest released version. There's newer code in the CVS, of course.

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I ask because the file haskell-mode.el says "Version: 1.43" in the header, and I thought I remembered certain bugs being fixed which are present in your version. For instance, I thought that "\(x)->x" parsed correctly in the latest version, but in the version 2.0 which you distribute, the backslash is still interpreted incorrectly as escaping the parenthesis.

The backslash problem is only fixed if you use font-lock. Do you use font-lock? Also it may not work in all versions of Emacs. Which version do you use?

Hmm. I use font-lock, but I use xemacs (21.4). Maybe that's the cause of the difference. Frederik -- http://ofb.net/~frederik/

On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 06:53:21PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:

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Hmm. I use font-lock, but I use xemacs (21.4). Maybe that's the cause of the difference.

IIRC XEmacs's support for syntax-table text-properties (and more specifically for font-lock-syntactic-keywords) has been generally fairly late. I'd expect it to be fully working by now, but maybe only in 21.5.

Try Emacs ;-)

I switched from emacs to xemacs because of gnuserv/gnuclient. As I understand it, please correct me, but with xemacs "gnuclient" one can attach a "frame" of a server xemacs process to the current terminal. Emacs only supports "emacsclient" which allows you to open a file in a remote server process, but not on the terminal which you run "emacsclient" from, so it's not as useful. The difference means that xemacs can simulate a fast-loading terminal editor, whereas emacs cannot. There are other problems with xemacs - the default syntax-coloring colors are all mapped to "white" on the terminal, for instance, and one has to manually reassign them to standard terminal colors in order to get syntax-coloring to work. I would switch back to emacs if it were not for the above difference. Frederik -- http://ofb.net/~frederik/