ghci :tags command conflicts with :type

Simon Marlow simonmar at microsoft.com
Mon Jul 25 06:53:01 EDT 2005


On 25 July 2005 02:25, Duncan Coutts wrote:

> The :tags for ghci feature that recently went into cvs:
> 
> http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/cvs-ghc/2005-June/025436.html
> 
> means that unfortunately saying:
> 
>> t blah
> 
> now complains that :t is ambiguous because it could be :tags or :type.
> 
> I think this may upset people! :-) People are very used to using :t.
> They've probably been doing it for more than a decade (with hugs
> before ghci). Could :tags be renamed or the ambiguity be resolved by
> letting :t default to the one that we obviously mean.

I fixed this by renaming :tags to :etags and :ctags.  Maybe you've got
an old set of sources?

Cheers,
	Simon



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