[Haskell-cafe] What features should an (fictitious) IDE for Haskell have?

[Alberto G. Corona]

Automatic code generation from type signature, using djinn exference and
other packages,

Automatically fill holes in the code using the same engines.

El vie, 4 dic 2020 a las 19:45, Ben Franksen (<ben.franksen at online.de>)
escribió:

> Am 01.12.20 um 03:06 schrieb Mig Mit:
> > Please DO store code as ascii text. At the very least that would
> > allow the use of external tools — sed, diff, git, whatever. Non-ascii
> > representations were tried multiple times, and largely failed, in
> > particular because of terrible interaction with other tools.
> >
> > Also, please make sure your IDE is a good text editor. Because that's
> > what the code is — not AST, but text. Until it is finished (to a
> > certain lax definition of "finished") it is likely to not even be
> > representable in AST form.
>
> Absolutely. And "a good text editor" for me includes (a) an easy way to
> re-configure key bindings and (b) the ability to define macros (using
> some sort of embedded language). The point is that I want to be able to
> re-use my finger's muscle memory as far as possible.
>
> That's just the basics, of course, and on top of that I would expect at
> least the ability to easily navigate to the definition of a variable and
> also to iteratively visit all places where it is used, centering the
> code in the editor window and highlighting the variable, such that I can
> navigate to the next/previous occurrence, skip the whole file or
> subdirectory, etc. Like a multi-file/multi-dir language aware search and
> replace.
>
> A very cool feature would be if I could select a program phrase and let
> it find /similar/ phrases, where a similarity metric could be
> edit-distance with respect to language tokens (ideally ignoring
> redundant parentheses and stuff like that).
>
> Cheers
> Ben
>
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-- 
Alberto.
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