Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> >> And to think that I do all my programming with an editor which doesn't 
> >> give me syntax hilighting *or* automatic indentation...
> > 
> >   Why?

> Becuase no editor in existence can syntax hilight Haskell?

  I don't think that's true. http://www.haskell.org/haskell-mode/

> > Try some editor which is able to color your code, use it for a few
> > weeks, and you'll never switch back.

> I use a text editor which does support syntax hililghting, auto-indent 
> and a bunch of other things for XML, CSS, PostScript, TeX, JavaScript 
> and more. It just doesn't support Haskell, that's all. While it's nice 
> to have syntax hilighting and so on, it's hardly essential. I don't 
> really miss it all that much.

  Maybe it's because you program mostly in Haskell and not those other
languages?

> > For example, if emacs starts autoindenting in
> > a completely crazy way, I immediately know that there's a typo somewhere
> > (maybe a missing curly bracket or semicolon).

> You're saying "if it indents wrong, you've missed a delimiter". I'm 
> saying "if you indent it right, that's your delimiters".

  Indenting is easier when the editor does it for you.

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                                                          - Warp

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