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

[Rustom Mody]

On Sun, Apr 10, 2016 at 6:32 PM, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic <
ivan.miljenovic at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 10 April 2016 at 20:35, Rustom Mody <rustompmody at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > 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>
> >
>
> Can you double check whether melpa-stable was indeed added to
> package-archives?  (That said, I use melpa itself rather than
> melpa-stable to get regular snapshots rather than specific releases.)
>
> Another alternative is to use el-get to fetch it from git rather than
> package.el.
>
>
Changing the melpa url from http to https seems to make it work -- thanks!
[Instructions here https://github.com/haskell/haskell-mode give http]
I'll need to check more carefully
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