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

[Alan & Kim Zimmerman]

On Mon, 30 Nov 2020 at 21:42, Henning Thielemann <
lemming at henning-thielemann.de> wrote:

>
> On Mon, 30 Nov 2020, Tikhon Jelvis wrote:
>
> > Biggest feature I want is automated refactoring.
>
> Any such refactoring tool would require a (configurable) formatting and
> indentation tool, because even simple search&replace will break your
> layout. Thus, a good code formatter would be an even more important
> feature of the IDE.
>

The ghc-exactprint library (as used in retrie, hlint refactors and HaRe)
makes it so you can change the AST in a refactoring and preserve
formatting/layout in the result.

Alan
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