funny bold ouput in GHCI

Dean Herington heringto at cs.unc.edu
Fri Jan 24 13:18:32 EST 2003


Malcolm Wallace wrote:

> Dean Herington writes:
>
> > | Using GHCI 5.04.2, ... the '>' character of a '->' lexeme
> > | appears in bold on my terminal.
>
> Is it possible that your terminal is set up for syntax-highlighting,
> or that you are using GHCi from within something like emacs where
> such a facility might be available?  For instance, some environments
> render lines containing a > character in a different colour/font
> because of the common mail-quoting convention.  Another possibility
> is syntax-highlighting for diff-scripts.

Yes.  It appears the funny "bolding" is due to emacs highlighting in a
*shell* window.  Sorry to have bothered the GHC bugs list.

Dean




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