[Haskell] Re: Beyond ASCII only editors for Haskell

[Jérémy Bobbio]

On Sunday 22 May 2005 22:35, Shae Matijs Erisson wrote:
> Mads Lindstrøm <mads_lindstroem at yahoo.dk> writes:
> > But we do not have to leave out ASCII based editors - atleast to
> > begin with. You can be showing functions like sqrt using real math
> > symbol and at the same time store your documents as ordinary
> > Haskell sources, which can be read by any editor. This would of
> > cause require the editor to have a faily big understanding of the
> > Haskell language. And it can only go so far, some math stuff will
> > require richer formats that cannot be translated nicely to ordinary
> > Haskell sources.
>
> This has been done, Luke Gorrie wrote pretty-lambda.el:
> http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/PrettyLambda
>
> Jorge Adriano did something similar for Haskell with x-symbol:
> http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2002-August/003237.html
>
> Pugs is doing this directly:
> http://use.perl.org/~autrijus/journal/24762
>
> For more exciting possibilities, the plan for the Yi editor is to
> have parser-based modes. That would allow you to do much more than
> what's mentioned above.

Sébastien Carlier also made an preprocessor for Haskell code using UTF-8 
mathematical symbols:

  http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/~sebc/unicode/

Cheers,
  Jérémy.
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