#95: GHCi editor binding with ":e"
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Reporter: martijnislief | Owner: nobody
Type: feature request | Status: assigned
Priority: normal | Milestone: 6.8 branch
Component: GHCi | Version: None
Severity: minor | Resolution: None
Keywords: | Difficulty: Easy (1 hr)
Os: Unknown | Testcase:
Architecture: Unknown |
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Comment (by guest):
actually, it turns out you can define all this even back in 6.4.1 (had i
only known back then!-). you need to define your own :e command (:def is
available), and ghci 6.4.1 is somewhat annoying about command names that
are prefixes of each other. have a look at
http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/cr3/toolbox/haskell/dot-
squashed.ghci641
http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/cr3/toolbox/haskell/dot-
squashed.ghci
since .ghci files are not very readable with definitions squashed into
single lines, you might want to check the explanations of the latter file
in
http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2007-September/032260.html
(note: the names in the 6.4.1 version differ from those in the described
version)
i'm not yet sure whether being able to define :e means that it shouldn't
be part of ghci at all (and this ticket be closed), or whether there are
still any advantages to having it built in? perhaps ghci releases should
have a selection of .ghci files with useful definitions?
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Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/95#comment:7>
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