Workaround for Geany comment toggling in Haskell source files
Published: 2016-07-05
Status: finished
Status: finished
The Geany shortcut Ctrl e
to toggle single line comments is useful. For some reason the inserted comment characters for Haskell, .hs
, files include a trailing tilde, producing --~
. Unfortunately the compiler (GHC) does not seem to like the ~
character following the comment characters.
A workaround is to edit filetypes.haskell
located in /usr/share/geany/
. I found adding a single space at the end of the line comment_single=--
did the trick. Now Ctrl e
inserts -- ~
. The compiler is happy and comment toggling works.