[Haskell-cafe] Haskell, stack and the Atom editor

[Raphael Gaschignard]

ide-haskell has recently gotten a slack backend (
https://atom.io/packages/ide-haskell-stack). Could be worth your time.
According to the ide-haskell github issue, the support is pretty "bare
bones"(https://github.com/atom-haskell/ide-haskell/issues/108) but likely
better than a language-agnostic linter tool

On Sat, Apr 9, 2016, 6:58 PM Benjamin Edwards <edwards.benj at gmail.com>
wrote:

> > I can't stand Emacs so don't bother suggesting it.
>
> I guess you'll be happy to get all this stuff working on atom yourself
> like the good folks working on emacs have.
>
> Ben
>
> On Sat, 9 Apr 2016 at 08:03 Thomas Koster <tkoster at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi friends,
>>
>> I want to switch to the Atom editor for my Haskell development. I have
>> tried several times over the last few years and given up each time because
>> hardly anything works.
>>
>> I can't stand Emacs so don't bother suggesting it.
>>
>> I am currently using Geany, which has served me well, mostly because it
>> is dead simple so nothing can go wrong. In addition to the usual universal
>> text editor functions, all it does is highlight syntax (albeit with an
>> outdated grammar), runs custom commands to build, displays clickable errors
>> in a separate pane and underlines them in the editor pane. But for larger
>> projects, I want more (better autocompletion, better integration with the
>> build system, better VCS support).
>>
>> But back to Atom, I am having extreme difficulty getting even the basics
>> working.
>>
>> I am using GHC 7.10.2, Cabal 1.22.4.0, Stack 1.0.4.
>>
>> I installed Atom 1.6.1 from their deb package.
>>
>> I installed the "language-haskell" package. This works very well,
>> thankfully, but is the *only* thing that I can get working.
>>
>> I avoided "ide-haskell", even though it looks great, because their readme
>> says it can't build with stack and I rely heavily on stack.
>>
>> Instead, I installed the "build" and "linter" packages and created an
>> ".atom-build" file to build my project with stack. It invokes stack
>> correctly, but I can't get it to recognise any errors: linter always says
>> "No issues". I must have tried twenty different regexes in "errorMatch" but
>> none of them seem to work.
>>
>> I also installed "linter-hdevtools", hoping that that may let me see some
>> errors, but I can't get that to work either. The package is loaded but it
>> appears to do absolutely nothing. strace does show that Atom is trying to
>> exec hdevtools through stack, but I get no output at all within Atom as
>> evidence that something worked or failed.
>>
>> hdevtools appears to have its own problems. I had installed hdevtools
>> (0.1.2.1) with stack:
>>     stack install hdevtools
>> I ran it myself using:
>>     stack exec --no-ghc-package-path hdevtools -- check Main.hs
>> and it gives me the infamous error:
>>     Cabal error: Use of GHC's environment variable GHC_PACKAGE_PATH is
>>     incompatible with Cabal.
>> This is strange because "stack exec --no-ghc-package-path env" reports
>> that no such environment variable is defined, as expected.
>>
>> At this point I am ready to give up yet again. Does anybody have any
>> last-minute advice on using Atom to develop with Haskell and Stack?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Thomas Koster
>>
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