Claus Reinke wrote:
i tried at the time to get others to post their .ghci files at well,
and share their favourite tricks, but there weren't many responses.
OK, OK. I just posted Customized GHCi interactive environments
to wiki. It's a simple but very powerful trick that I use all the time.
it is actually in the users guide, just not where one would find
it when looking for a way to do this..
http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/users_guide/ghci-commands.html
section 3.7 (GHCi commands), as one of the examples for using ':def'.
perhaps it would help to (-: todo; +: done):
| Wow, that simple???
|
| What needs to be done to get this in :? output? (It should be in the
| manual, at least...)
Indeed! But it's more application-note than user manual. Fortunately, we have
a place for such material, namely GHC's collaborative documentation (a wiki)