2010/7/3 Ivan Lazar Miljenovic <[email protected]>: > Deniz Dogan <[email protected]> writes: > >> Doing so would only mean that haskell-mode will most likely never be a >> part of Emacs, meaning that anyone looking for programming Haskell in >> Emacs would have to download an external library, be it through >> package.el or not. > > And what's so bad about that? >
If haskell-mode is part of Emacs, a newbie just has to create a file with a .hs extension and he/she is good to go. No need for any Haskell Platform or cabal-install, etc. It is simply convenient. > I suppose it might be possible to have a cut-down haskell-mode in Emacs > for casual hacking, the way there's python-mode and pymacs. > That's what I'm saying too. >> To put it short, there are no pros in making the new Haskell indenter >> a strict part of haskell-mode. > > There are if it brings in a lot of cool features. > These cool features might as well be part of an optional extension to haskell-mode. -- Deniz Dogan _______________________________________________ Haskellmode-emacs mailing list [email protected] http://projects.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskellmode-emacs
