[GHC] #5417: GHCi browse gets type families wrong

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#5417: GHCi browse gets type families wrong
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    Reporter:  simonpj           |        Owner:              
        Type:  bug               |       Status:  new         
    Priority:  normal            |    Milestone:              
   Component:  Compiler          |      Version:  7.2.1       
    Keywords:                    |     Testcase:              
   Blockedby:                    |   Difficulty:              
          Os:  Unknown/Multiple  |     Blocking:              
Architecture:  Unknown/Multiple  |      Failure:  None/Unknown
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Comment(by simonpj):

 It's mixture of things.
  * There are definitely bugs related to the display of associated types
 (hence the strange `B.R:FB1`.
  * The `:browse` command makes an odd choice for the scope in which id
 displays its results, which in turn says what gets displayed qualified and
 what does not.  Currently it displays the results of `:browse M` in the
 scope that would arise from `import Prelude; import M`. This is pretty
 confusing.

 I'm about to commit a patch to
  * Fix the bugs
  * Arrange that `:browse` always displays its results in the ''current
 scope'' just like `:info`, `:type` and so on.  Simon and I think that'll
 be much less confusing.

 Simon

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