[Haskell-beginners] emacs setup for haskell

[Rustom Mody]

On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 2:03 PM, Adrien Haxaire <adrien at haxaire.org> wrote:

> On Fri, 2 Dec 2011 10:53:55 +0530, Rustom Mody wrote:
>
>> I am using haskell inside emacs with the usual setup ie .hs file in
>> one window, ghci in another.
>>
>> Now the most usual workflow one would do is to load the file into ghci
>> (C-c C-l) and try out something in ghci.
>> A small niggle is that after the C-c C-l Ive to manually switch to the
>> other window (current window does not switch to ghci automatically)
>>  This seems to be a strange default
>>
>
> Actually I prefer it this way because I can check often if my types are
> OK, or that I don't have a typo.
> You can also rebind C-c C-l to execute C-x o after it.
>
>
>> More importantly the state of the workspace in ghci seems to get
>> messed up unless I do:
>> 0. Prepare some code in .hs
>> 2. Switch to ghci
>> 3. Clear the ghci workspace with :m
>>  4. switch back to .hs
>> 5. C-c C-l
>> 6. Switch to ghci to try out new code
>>
>> Is there something I am missing?
>>
>
> When I do C-c C-l it recompiles and/or reloads all my modules and wipes
> all the variables I had defined before, so I think steps 0 to 4 are not
> needed.
>

Yeah I guess I need to reproduce the case.
Yesterday I kept getting errors until I started this protocol of 'cleaning
the workspace' and then it worked.  Need to reconstruct what that case
was...
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