Autocomplete command line options with GHC 7.8

2014-04-16 Thread Jan Stolarek
Hi all, GHC 7.8 adds --show-options flag that prints all supported command line flags on standard output. This can be used to enable autocompletion of command line options for ghc in shells that support autocompletion. If you're using bash add this snippet to your ~/.bashrc file: START #

Re: Autocomplete command line options with GHC 7.8

2014-04-16 Thread Philip Dexter
On Wed, 16 Apr 2014, Jan Stolarek wrote: PS. I also added a wiki page: https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/AutocompleteGHCFlags Feel free to add instructions for other shells. Zsh autocompletion resides on the haskell wiki [1]. There are also updated versions of both _cabal and _ghc (PR

Re: Autocomplete command line options with GHC 7.8

2014-04-16 Thread Jan Stolarek
Thanks Philip. ps - I tried to register on trac to add this info to your page but my registration was marked as spam (even after answering a math question) I believe you have to contact Herbert about that (CC'd). In the meantime I added this information to GHC wiki, although it would be nice

Re: Autocomplete command line options with GHC 7.8

2014-04-16 Thread Philip Dexter
On Wed, 16 Apr 2014, Jan Stolarek wrote: In the meantime I added this information to GHC wiki, although it would be nice to be able to use --show-options under zsh as well. From my understanding scripts that you linked to need to be manually updated, whereas --show-options displays all flags