Haskell

Firstly install the haskell-stack chocolatey package:

choco install -y haskell-stack

For me that perfectly installed haskell and meant that I could run stack commands and have stack ghci running in a DOS prompt.

Emacs

Chocolatey has an Emacs package:

choco install -y emacs

This puts the emacs binaries into the chocolatey bin directory. Then the .emacs file and the .emacs.d directory go into %APPDATA%.

This installs an Emacs windows program. I wondered if there was a DOS version similar to Vim. There is an Emacs For DOS – but this isn’t part of the Chocolatey package, which comes from the GNU Emacs FTP directory.

Intero

The haskell project have a new integration with Emacs. I have to say this installed remarkably easy. The only problem I had was that I’d put a bad config into %APPDATA%\stack\config.yaml and this created errors – that were well explained in Emacs.

It’s not 100% clear how you get things to work though. Bare in mind I’ve never used Emacs before today.

I have managed to get Haskell setup and working, which came with stack.

Following the Intero guide, the installation of the package was easy enough – just edit the %APPDATA%\emacs.d file. I restarted Emacs and the Intero package installed itself without errors.

Following the guide further I ran the stack new intro-demo command in a directory. This created the intero-demo directory and put everything in it. If you then ‘File > Open Directory’ in Emacs to open the intero-demo directory. Opening Setup.hs had the affect of getting Intero to install itself.

At this point things were actually working – but it wasn’t obvious the the error as you type checking was happening because it was erroring at the very first command of the Setup.hs

However if you open up a new Haskell file in the directory it should start doing error checking on the fly.