[Haskell-cafe] indentation blues

[Jean-Marie Gaillourdet]

On 13.12.2011, at 11:43, Martin DeMello wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 2:34 AM, Adrien Haxaire <adrien at haxaire.org> wrote:
>> 
>>> Regarding, your question whether this is worth switching from vim to
>>> emacs. I've been using both editors for some years and I very much
>>> doubt, that "you wouldn't spend much time learning emacs". If you are
>>> comfortable with vim, stick with it, unless you are interested in
>>> Emacs or one of its really great modes: org and auctex/reftex.
>>> 
>>> Regarding, the vi emulations, I'd say they are nice should you ever
>>> be forced to use emacs for some time. But I don't recommend them, I've
>>> tried them all. They are not the real thing. Most of them are vi not
>>> vim emulators. And they always feel like second class citizens in
>>> emacs land. YMMW.
>> 
>> Thanks for your feedback. I've never tried vim so I couldn't tell precisely.
>> 
>> I thought the emulations were nice enough to save time learning emacs. If
>> they are second class citizens, I agree it would be wiser to stick with vim
>> then.
> 
> yeah, i was assuming the emulations were nice enough to support my vim
> habits too. if they aren't, not even a good haskell mode would make
> emacs comfortable enough to use given my years of ingrained vim.

I am not saying they are bad, but when I returned to emacs after two years of using vim, I was disappointed by their functionality and especially by the integration between third-party emacs-modes and the vi emulations. Though, I believe there is some work on new vim emulators. I am not sure on their status. They are probably no non-brainer option, yet.

What I really liked about Claus Reinke's haskell-mode for vim was the ability to insert update statements with one command.

Cheers,
  Jean