Month in haskell mode January 2015

Welcome haskell-mode users,

haskell-mode received a slight uptick in contributions recently. I took the opportunity to summarize developments that have happened during last month, that is January 2015.

What is haskell-mode?

haskell-mode is a Haskell editing mode for Emacs. haskell-mode is open source, developed by a group of volunteers. For more information see https://github.com/haskell/haskell-mode.

Important developments

Development focused on code refactoring and edge case removal. We support Emacs 23, Emacs 24 and snapshot version of Emacs 25 and we have a proof of that in travis builds. Some other obvious issues were fixed along the way.

Issues closed

• Syntax highlighting wrong in listish type signature or top-level pattern matching. #55
• Emacs24: haskell-indent-put-region-in-literate #88
• Bang Patterns incorrectly highlit #147
• haskell-align-imports doesn't work as advertised #183
• font-lock mode doesn't recognize PackageImports syntax #184
• TAGS file points to hs~ files #199
• Update marmalade #226
• haskell-mode-hook popup upon return #248
• info chapter numbers {7,8} swapped #262
• turn-on-haskell-simple-indent breaks auto-fill-mode for comments #279
• error with latest haskell mode #392
• Does ghci mode recognize cabal sandboxes? #398
• ⧺(U+29FA) not highlighted as operator #410
• Identifiers within backticks not highlighted when prefixed with module name #438

Merged pull requests

• Proposal - Add haskell-process-wrapper-function #370
• Improve paragraph filling for nested comments. #387
• Jump to next/previous prompt in haskell-interactive-mode #391
• Syntax table entries for non-alphanumeric chars #412
• More precise syntax table entries. #413
• Allow _ (underscore) in module names. #417
• Add haskell-utils-tests.el. #418
• Mark some variables as safe. #419
• Allow _ (underscore) in module names. #420
• Allow _ (underscore) in module names #421
• Add haskell-simple-indent-tests.el. #422
• Add more tests for simple-indent #424
• Support for TABs in simple indent backtab. #425
• Refactor haskell-simple-indent. #426
• Pr haskell info fixes #427
• Generate tags from *.hs, *.lhs and *.hsc only. #428
• Keep point in haskell-simple-indent. #430
• Implement haskell-comment-function. #431
• Improve docs for haskell-simple-indent. #434
• Add PackageImports syntax to font-lock. #436
• Special case bang pattern for font-lock. #437
• Add haskell-indent-tests.el. #439
• M-q fix and tests #441
• Operator M.v font lock. #442
• Allow module name completion in import statements #443
• Resurrect Emacs23 support #445
• Use setq in place of setq-local for indent-tabs-mode. #446
• Fix testing #448
• Better Emacs23 support with warnings and errors #449
• Pr font lock 1 #451
• Cleanup following #449 #452

Active contributors

Chris Done, Fanael Linithien, Gracjan Polak, Kirill Ignatiev, Markus Hauck, Steve Purcell

Contributing

haskell-mode needs valunteers like any other open source project. For more information see:

https://github.com/haskell/haskell-mode/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md

Thanks!