[Haskell-cafe] How to capture the output of GHCi :show command

[Justin Bailey]

Alex,

See "a hammer for many nails: capturing ghci command output" in the
mail message "getting more out of ghci" sent by Claus Reinke on Sept
25th, 2007 to the Haskell Cafe list:

  https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2007-September/032260.html

On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 10:02 AM, Alex <agrambot at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I would like to be able to bind the output of GHCi's :show to a
> variable, but I don't see a nice way to do so. Is it possible to do this
> directly in GHCi?
>
> My specific use for this is appending to the current prompt.
>
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