Plugins: How to determine ghc vs ghci

[Levent Erkok]

Thanks! That indeed does work.

I'm a bit surprised though that there isn't already an internal boolean set
somewhere; checking for a string in the arguments sounds a bit fragile.

On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 12:28 AM, Aycan İrican <iricanaycan at gmail.com>
wrote:

> How about `GHC.Environment.getFullArgs` which includes “—interactive” when
> you’re in GHCi?
>
>
> > On 24 Nov 2015, at 09:37, Levent Erkok <erkokl at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I'm working on a plugin, and would like to be able to tell if it's GHC
> or GHCi that's running.
> >
> > I tried:
> >
> >    df   <- getDynFlags
> >    let isGHCi = ghcMode df == CompManager
> >
> > Alas, while that correctly tells apart "ghci" from "ghc -c", it also
> returns True when ghc is called without the "-c" argument.
> >
> > Is there a better/more robust way of figuring out whether we're in an
> interactive session?
> >
> > -Levent.
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