Update guide wrt with_hls wrapper

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Julian Ospald 2022-02-26 20:17:02 +01:00
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## Tips and tricks
### with_ghc wrapper (e.g. for HLS)
### Execute command with certain GHC in PATH
Due to some HLS [bugs](https://github.com/mpickering/hie-bios/issues/194) it's necessary that the `ghc` in PATH
is the one defined in `cabal.project`. With some simple shell functions, we can start our editor with the appropriate
path prepended.
For bash, in e.g. `~/.bashrc` define:
If you don't want to explicitly switch the active GHC all the time and are using
tools that rely on the plain `ghc` binary, GHCup provides an easy way to execute
commands with a certain toolchain prepended to PATH, e.g.:
```sh
with_ghc() {
local np=$(ghcup --offline whereis -d ghc $1 || { ghcup --cache install ghc $1 && ghcup whereis -d ghc $1 ;})
if [ -e "${np}" ] ; then
shift
PATH="$np:$PATH" "$@"
else
>&2 echo "Cannot find or install GHC version $1"
return 1
fi
}
ghcup run --ghc 8.10.7 --cabal latest --hls latest --stack latest --install -- code Setup.hs
```
For fish shell, in e.g. `~/.config/fish/config.fish` define:
```fish
function with_ghc
set --local np (ghcup --offline whereis -d ghc $argv[1] ; or begin ghcup --cache install ghc $argv[1] ; and ghcup whereis -d ghc $argv[1] ; end)
if test -e "$np"
PATH="$np:$PATH" $argv[2..-1]
else
echo "Cannot find or install GHC version $argv[1]" 1>&2
return 1
end
end
```
Then start a new shell and issue:
```sh
# replace 'code' with your editor
with_ghc 8.10.5 code path/to/haskell/source
```
Cabal and HLS will now see `8.10.5` as the primary GHC, without the need to
run `ghcup set` all the time when switching between projects.
This will execute vscode with GHC set to 8.10.7 and all other tools to their latest version.