[Haskell-cafe] Editor

[Rodrigo Queiro]

With a slightly less flippant response, have you ever tried TextMate? I
haven't, but I've heard many wax lyrical about its combination of the UNIXy
power of Vim et al with the intuitive and simple UI that OS X has a
reputation for. Unfortunately, it's not free and is only for Mac OS X, but
it seems that it was created by someone who shared your dream (although a
less Haskell-centric version, no doubt).

On 21/05/07, Michael T. Richter <ttmrichter at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  I have a dream.  It's not a little dream.  It's a big dream.  I have a
> dream that someday I can find a UNIX/Linux text editor for Haskell hacking
> (and possibly two or three hundred other programming languages, although
> that's optional) that can give me all of the following:
>
>
>    1. A real GUI environment that takes into account some of the HID
>    advances made in the past 30 years.  (Emacs and Vim don't count, in other
>    words.)
>    2. Good quality syntax highlighting for Haskell that includes all of
>    the usual syntax highlighting goodies, plus:
>
>    3. the ability to seamlessly handle raw Haskell and both common
>    forms of Literate Haskell;
>    4. the ability to properly highlight Haddock comments;
>    5. the ability to highlight functions and types from libraries
>    (user-expandable) differently from local functions and types.
>
>    6. Line folding to hide and show blocks of code.
>    7. Code completion (user-expandable, ideally) for common library
>    functions, type declarations, etc.
>    8. Easy, quick access to online documentation for said functions and
>    declarations.
>    9. Good (ideally scriptable) access to external utilities for
>    compilation, debugging, profiling, type inference, project management, etc.
>    10. A good plug-in system (ideally written in Haskell?) for
>    expansion.
>
>
> Is there such a beast available out there somewhere?  If not, is such a
> beast lurking in the background ready to pounce in the near future?
>   --
> *Michael T. Richter* <ttmrichter at gmail.com> (*GoogleTalk:*
> ttmrichter at gmail.com)
> *I have to wonder why people think that when they can't manage local
> personnel within easy strangling and shooting distance, then they can manage
> personnel thousands of miles away that have different languages, cultures,
> and business rules. (Joe Celko)*
>
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