[Haskell-cafe] Comments from two weeks of using Leksah

[jutaro]

Hello Jeff


Jeff Heard wrote:
> 
> I've been using the latest and greatest version of leksah for the last
> couple of weeks and I wanted to give a short report on the things I've
> found.
> 
Thanks for taking the time to write this report. 

Jeff Heard wrote:
> 
> First of all, it's crashed only once, and the error was an actual
> segfault, so I'm not sure what went wrong there.  All in all, I like
> the eyecandy and have left it on for everything I do, but I've noticed
> that arrows have an extra space after them, no matter which arrow.
> Also, the candy for =<< and >>= is the same.
> 
The extra space is a feature that you can switch on and off 
(-Trimming in the .candy file). It is "on" as standard to avoid possible
problems
with layout sensitiveness of Haskell and candy.
The unicode signs for =<< and >>= can be set in the .candy file. We should
find a reasonable default. 

Jeff Heard wrote:
> 
> Only one "missing feature" that I've noticed: regex find and replace.
> I'd like very much to be able to find and replace using regexes, as
> this is pretty much why I keep coming back to vi and emacs.
> 
You are right. Find and replace is missing not only in this respect. We will
add this to the wish list.

Jeff Heard wrote:
> 
> I really really like the modules pane which gives me quick views into
> the doc of everything that's installed and the signatures.  I wonder,
> though, could it be limited to the packages made available by the
> dependencies in configuring the current working package?  That way, it
> would be easy to tell whether a dependency was missing.
> 
This should be possible by selecting the "package" scope in the modules or
search pane.

Jeff Heard wrote:
> 
> I wonder if there's a way to setup the preferences so that
> autocomplete can be accelerator based (like Ctrl+Space) instead of
> constantly on, because I've noticed that occasionally I'll hit enter
> at the end of a line and have it autocorrect my last identifier
> incorrectly.  
> 
Go to Preferences/GUI Options and select "Complete only on hotkey"

Jeff Heard wrote:
> 
> It'd be kind of neat if the error lines from the
> continuous background build showed up highlighted in the editor in
> some way, like they do in oh say Eclipse, but that's just a nice
> feature.
> 
This will be much enhanced in the next version. The highligt part was 
completely rewritten when adding the debugger.

Jeff Heard wrote:
> 
> Only other feature i'd like to see added is the ability to have
> multiple packages open at once, allow them to depend on each other,
> and handle configuring, building, and installing each of them be a
> one-step process.
> 
Sorry, but this is currently not on our list. But if someone implements it,
we will be very happy. 
Thanks again and good night

Jürgen

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