[Haskell-cafe] IDE?

[Stefan O'Rear]

On Sat, Jun 16, 2007 at 06:14:38PM -0400, Christopher Lane Hinson wrote:
> 
> While we're on the topic of IDE features.
> 
> I wish to have an editor that ran GHC[I] every few seconds or so, and 
> underlined sites of syntax errors in red.  This would save me a lot of 
> back-and-forth.  If an editor did this, I would switch (from kate) in a 
> heartbeat.
> 
> This has been mentioned before in only one place that I can find:
> 
> http://compilers.iecc.com/comparch/article/99-09-067
> 
> Yeah, I could do it myself.

Shim *almost* does this; it has a key command to run GHC and highlight
all the syntax and type errors, on mouseover displaying the error
message.  Someone experienced with Emacs could probably set up the
automation easily...

Stefan