onivim/oni

Improve Haskell Syntax Highlighting.

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#2546 opened on Sep 3, 2018

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Description

Haskell Syntax highlighting seems dull.

Currently all of these are one colour: functions/variables (definitions and use), brackets, types. As well as operators and keywords are also the same colour.

There only seems to be a total of 5 colours on screen

Haskell's "lack" of liveliness is probably related to the fact that functions and variables are the same thing syntactically.

Here is a comparison between Spacemacs and Oni. image

Also, Oni reminds me of when I used gVim, so it could be an upstream issue.

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typescript
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developer experience
Issue type
feature
DifficultyEstimated implementation difficulty for a new contributor, from 1 for very small changes to 5 for expert-level work.
3
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half day
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stale
ClarityHow clearly the issue explains the expected change, acceptance criteria, and next step.
mostly clear
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Newbie friendlinessA 1-100 score estimating how approachable this issue is for first-time contributors.
30
Research direction
Investigate current Haskell tokenization rules in Oni's syntax highlighting engine. Compare with Spacemacs to identify missing scopes. Look at the theme files for Neovim or Oni's default colors. Consider if the issue is upstream in Neovim's vim polyglot or similar.