[Haskell-cafe] Emacs (was stack and the Atom editor)

[Rustom Mody]

On Sun, Apr 10, 2016 at 2:55 PM, Rustom Mody <rustompmody at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 10, 2016 at 2:13 PM, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic <
> ivan.miljenovic at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 10 April 2016 at 17:36, Rustom Mody <rustompmody at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Basic setups -- is it called haskell-mode/haskell-emacs or what?
>>
>> haskell-emacs was Chris Done's first attempt at writing a new Haskell
>> mdoe for Emacs before he merged it into haskell-mode proper; so you
>> probably don't want to use haskell-emacs any more (it's rather old and
>> quite probably bitrotted).
>>
>
> Just tried the "Quick Install" instructions at
> https://github.com/haskell/haskell-mode
> As best as I can see there is no haskell-mode after package-refresh
> contents
> There is only these when I try to do package-install [completions buffer]
>
> Click on a completion to select it.
> In this buffer, type RET to select the completion near point.
>
> Possible completions are:
> haskell-emacs     haskell-emacs-base
> haskell-emacs-text     haskell-snippets
> haskell-tab-indent
>


Update:
While the install via emacs package system doesn't work, install via git
does

<ot remark>
Emacs package system is about as broken as a linux kernel would be if it
tried to do the job of grub
</ot remark>
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