Re: [Haskell-cafe] Is there a tool like ri from ruby?

2012-11-25 Thread John Wiegley
Tikhon Jelvis tik...@jelv.is writes: Have you tried Hoogle? I know you can install it locally and use it from GHCi or Emacs. I'm not familiar with ri, but from your description I think a local Hoogle would serve the same purpose with the added benefit of being able to search by types.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Is there a tool like ri from ruby?

2012-11-25 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Thank you two. I have got it working. Compared to ri, I think: The pro is I could find the package that I want even I do not know it. The con is I'd have to manually update its data. On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 9:21 AM, John Wiegley jo...@fpcomplete.com wrote: Tikhon Jelvis tik...@jelv.is writes:

[Haskell-cafe] Is there a tool like ri from ruby?

2012-11-23 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
RI is a very easy using tool that search and show the documents of ruby modules/functions, etc. Using RI, I could get help when programming with a few commands. Quick and simple. And with RI backend (libs), I could also simply integrate ri to my IDE (like one hotkey to show function summary). So

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Is there a tool like ri from ruby?

2012-11-23 Thread Tikhon Jelvis
Have you tried Hoogle? I know you can install it locally and use it from GHCi or Emacs. I'm not familiar with ri, but from your description I think a local Hoogle would serve the same purpose with the added benefit of being able to search by types. Here's the wiki page about it: