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RE: ghci :tags command conflicts with :type: msg#00124

lang.haskell.glasgow.bugs

Subject: RE: ghci :tags command conflicts with :type

On 25 July 2005 02:25, Duncan Coutts wrote:

> The :tags for ghci feature that recently went into cvs:
>
> http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/cvs-ghc/2005-June/025436.html
>
> means that unfortunately saying:
>
>> t blah
>
> now complains that :t is ambiguous because it could be :tags or :type.
>
> I think this may upset people! :-) People are very used to using :t.
> They've probably been doing it for more than a decade (with hugs
> before ghci). Could :tags be renamed or the ambiguity be resolved by
> letting :t default to the one that we obviously mean.

I fixed this by renaming :tags to :etags and :ctags. Maybe you've got
an old set of sources?

Cheers,
Simon


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