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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