2015-07-20 16:50 GMT+02:00 Doug McIlroy <d...@cs.dartmouth.edu>: > While "Improving the 'Get Haskell Experience'" is up for discussion, > I'd like again to ask for a way to circumvent hscolour at Hackage/Hayoo, > which offer to serve up Haskell "source". >
I think it has nothing to do with HsColour per se, but with the content type: The source pages are served as "text/html", so downloading the raw contents simply by "Save as..." won't get you the pure Haskell sources. Copy-n-paste works perfectly though, what's your concrete problem with that? > Unfortunately the source one gets from H/H is decorated like a ransom > note and cannot be fed to a compiler or editor. This is silly--to have > source at one's fingertips and not be able to use it. I think we disagree on the intended use case: For you it's downloading the source, for me it's having a quick look at the implementation, and for the latter use case I really, really prefer some kind of syntax highlighting. > (It is also unkind > to people like me who grew up reading monochrome text and find spattered > color to be distracting.) > Serving the stuff in monochrome is unkind to people who are used to syntax highlighting, which I guess is most people nowadays. Even my beloved Emacs can do this for more than 2 decades... ;-) More seriously: I'm -1 on serving raw text, this is what the corresponding repositories are for, the linked pages are meant to be read by humans. And there's always copy-n-paste, the other way round would be tricky. :-D
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