ghci feature suggestion

Malcolm Wallace Malcolm.Wallace at cs.york.ac.uk
Thu Aug 17 12:23:53 EDT 2006


Frederik Eaton <frederik at a5.repetae.net> wrote:

> > > I've been thinking that it would be nice if I could give ghci on
> > > the command line a list of commands to run initially when it
> > > starts.
> > 
> > GHCi can read commands from a .ghci or $HOME/.ghci files.
> 
> It's not enough because I work on more than one thing at a time, and I
> only have one home directory.

But you can have a separate .ghci file for every directory you work in.
The config file is read in preference from the current directory before
looking in $HOME.

Regards,
    Malcolm



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