GHCi completion on windows?

Claus Reinke claus.reinke at talk21.com
Thu May 1 18:44:17 EDT 2008


while undocumented (?), there seems to be a lot of code
in GHCi regarding commandline completion. but in a
default build, i don't get any benefit from that, as editline
doesn't seem available for mingw (?).

is there a way to get this working on windows? i'm growing
rather tired of typing VeryLongCamelCaseLanguageExtensions
in GHCi sessions, and this would help!-)

if there really is no working editline for windows, is there a
way of pluggin in Malcolm's System.Console.SimpleLineEditor 
(currently in package readline), extended to handle completion?
the completion code itself is in haskell, anyway, just that there's
no editline/readline to call this code on windows, right?

claus




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