ghci feature suggestion

[Frederik Eaton]

On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 05:23:53PM +0100, Malcolm Wallace wrote:
> 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.

I usually test things from different directories (i.e. project in one
directory, code using project in another) so I think that my
suggestion would still be useful. However, I confess to misreading the
documentation WRT .ghci in current working directory (sorry!).

Thanks,

Frederik

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