Re: [O] Support for Bird-style Literate Haskell

[Stephen Eglen]

Jean-Marie Gaillourdet <address@hidden> writes:

> I'd be interested to use org syntax in the comments of a literate
> haskell file. I know and use occasionally org-babel. Though, this
> question is not about org-babel. I am merely interested in telling
> org-mode to leave the code parts of a literate Haskell file alone,
> i.e. similar to code blocks in org-mode. I have no propblem with
> switching between org-mode and literate-haskell-mode depending on what
> I am currently editing. I am not interested in org-babel because I
> don't want to have a separate weaving step in my build system.
>
> In case you don't know: Literate Haskell files (ending with .lhs) come
> in two flavors: bird style and latex style. In bird style every line
> is a comment unless it has '>' in the first column. And in latex style
> code blocks are surround with \begin{code} and \end{code}. Haskell
> implementations do not care what is in the non-code parts. So, I'd
> like to use org markup and especially the editing features of
> org-mode. I'd prefer to work in bird-style and latex-style would be
> fine as well.


Check out Dave Love's work, it does latex-style, but not bird style.
 www.loveshack.ukfsn.org/emacs/haskell-latex.el