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authorJohn Soo <jsoo1@asu.edu>2019-12-13 06:29:27 -0800
committerMarius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com>2020-03-21 21:38:08 +0100
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gnu: stylish-haskell: Update description.
* gnu/packages/haskell-apps.scm (stylish-haskell): Update description. Signed-off-by: Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com>
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@@ -754,8 +754,26 @@ advanced user's otherwise working script to fail under future circumstances.
("ghc-test-framework-hunit" ,ghc-test-framework-hunit)))
(home-page "https://github.com/jaspervdj/stylish-haskell")
(synopsis "Haskell code prettifier")
- (description
- "A simple Haskell code prettifier. The goal is not to format all of the
-code in a file, just clean up import statements and a few other tedious
-items. This tool tries to help where necessary without getting in the way.")
+ (description "Stylish-haskell is a Haskell code prettifier. The goal is
+not to format all of the code in a file, to avoid \"getting in the way\".
+However, this tool can e.g. clean up import statements and help doing various
+tasks that get tedious very quickly. It can
+@itemize
+@item
+Align and sort @code{import} statements
+@item
+Group and wrap @code{{-# LANGUAGE #-}} pragmas, remove (some) redundant
+pragmas
+@item
+Remove trailing whitespaces
+@item
+Align branches in @code{case} and fields in records
+@item
+Convert line endings (customisable)
+@item
+Replace tabs by four spaces (turned off by default)
+@item
+Replace some ASCII sequences by their Unicode equivalent (turned off by
+default)
+@end itemize")
(license license:bsd-3)))