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RE: ghci :tags command conflicts with :type: msg#00127

lang.haskell.glasgow.bugs

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

On Mon, 2005-07-25 at 11:53 +0100, Simon Marlow wrote:
> 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.

Ok, great.

> Maybe you've got an old set of sources?

Must have. Sorry for the noise.

Duncan


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