ghc.nix repository needs documentation for working with tools used for isolated nix environments.

[zeta-00]

Hello there, I use (direnv+nix-direnv+emacs-direnv), but I'm having a hard time finding instructions on how to set this up with ghc.nix repository instead of just using the nix-shell command, it would be any of you could add documentation for using ghc.nix with tools like (direnv+nix-direnv+emacs-direnv) for working in isolated environments, I feel in the dark here. Well so far I only got 1 bash error that I need to fix, so that's a good sign.

Thanks in advance for the help!

[alpmestan]

I'm just running nix-shell manually to enter the environment in my terminal, and this works smoothly, so I suspect this is more a direnv/nix-direnv/emacs-direnv question than a ghc.nix one, isn' t it? Also, since you've asked about this a few times already but haven't found some help, I suspect none of the other ghc.nix devs have a similar setup as yours. I however don't know what other place would be better suited to find some help. But frankly, using nix-shell manually isn't that bad =) It would be a shame to let this prevent you from contributing to GHC.

[zeta-00]

@alpmestan

Hello There,

Thanks for the response!
In one of the other issues that I posted in this repository(#74), it looks like someone got their (lorri+direnv+zsh) setup working with ghc.nix. I asked him if he could paste his shell.nix code and any extra steps that he did to get it working. So, I think that I'm close, but I'm probably missing something.

As for doing nix-shell manually, I would have a hard time getting ghcide working with emacs, and I don't want to try contributing to ghc until I get ghcide working with emacs in an isolated nix environment, because, I'm not a Haskell expert, so being able to use a haskell-language-server to contribute to ghc, will help me out greatly.

Anyways, thanks again for the response!