Using Sublime 2 for Haskell Development?

Question

What is the current status of Sublime 2 integration for Haskell? I see two possible packages so far. A plugin for code highlighting and a REPL plugin.

Is there an intelli-sense plugin for Haskell? Maybe integration with Hackage as well?

Thanks.

Answer 1

SublimeHaskell plugin is the modern choice for Haskell development with SublimeText. It is well maintained and has plenty of useful features.

Other quite useful plugins:

• Shell Turtlestein, which allows you to quickly type in shell commands under a single keystroke from inside the editor.
• SublimeREPL, which allows you to run GHCi from inside the editor. Though without support for cabal repl yet.
• SideBarEnhancements, which I primarily use to rename/move files without touching the mouse. With it you can hit Ctrl/Cmd + P and type "rename" or "move" to enter the dialogue.

Answer 2

I use Sublime exclusively at the moment and while it's not all that special out of the box, installing sublime-text-haskell as Cubic suggested makes it a little better (it will compile and highlight errors when you save a file and apparently enhances the auto-completion).

I've experimented with writing my own plugins but the reality is that a lot of really cool possibilities are made difficult to implement because the API is actually kind of restricting (there's no way to add extra information like type signatures to auto-complete options for example).

It seems that the dev(s) are working on adding some requested API features, but until then, sublime-text-haskell is probably the best Haskell plugin.