Re: Hugs and cygwin

Karl Pflästerer writes:

Hi, I wanted to take a look at Haskell and thougt Hugs would be a good tool to start with. I have a windows as OS so I first downloaded the windows binaries. But they didn't play well with my editor (XEmacs).

There's probably better ways round this but my simple fix (which has worked well for more than 5 years) is not to use :set -E :edit etc I never really saw what using these commands bought you and you can certainly use Haskell and Hugs very successfully without them. [But other people find them very useful and can maybe suggest ways to use them on Windows with XEmacs.] -- Alastair Reid