[GHC] #5343: ghci should do an automatic ":r" after ":e"

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Sun Jul 24 18:21:07 CEST 2011


#5343: ghci should do an automatic ":r" after ":e"
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    Reporter:  lerkok            |       Owner:              
        Type:  feature request   |      Status:  new         
    Priority:  normal            |   Component:  Compiler    
     Version:  7.0.3             |    Keywords:              
    Testcase:                    |   Blockedby:              
          Os:  Unknown/Multiple  |    Blocking:              
Architecture:  Unknown/Multiple  |     Failure:  None/Unknown
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 A reload (:r) is almost always what one does after an edit (:e). Arguably
 ghci should just do the :r after an :e automatically, as I can't imagine
 why someone would edit a file but not want to load it back into ghci.

 If memory serves this is how hugs used to work.

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Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/5343>
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