[Haskell-beginners] Editor choices

[Jeff Lasslett]

There's just so much I don't know that I find myself wanting to look
something up every minute or so.  If the editor supported me in this regard
I would really love it.






On 19 April 2013 11:19, David McBride <toad3k at gmail.com> wrote:

> Usually when I'm inspecting something, I just go :ghci % and then :i the
> type I want.  If by some chance I don't have a library installed that is
> needed, I just search for a function or type on hayoo and browse the
> hackage docs for that library.
>
> There are ides for haskell, but I don't know how good they are.  Yi is
> written in haskell, but I don't know how good it is.  Eclipsefp is
> supposedly okay.  I know I've seen some vim integration (haskellmode?) but
> I don't know how well it works.  But I have never felt the absense of these
> tools in this language, personally.
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 7:45 PM, Jeff Lasslett <jeff.lasslett at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Greetings,
>>
>> So I find myself playing around with XMonad source code.  I'm a long time
>> Vim user and I've made  a tags file to help me navigate the source code.
>>  I've got decent syntax highlighting.
>>
>> What I lack is insight into the libs.  I'd like the editor/IDE to tell me
>> the type of a thing, or at least the module it is defined in.  Is this a
>> sensible question for haskell?  I just don't want to have to hunt for where
>> lib functions are defined (tags take me around the xmonad sources with
>> drama).
>>
>> So what editors/IDEs to people use for haskell to help with this?  Or do
>> you all just keep everything in your massive brains?  :-)
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Jeff
>>
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