brittany vs haskell-src-exts

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haskell source code formatter (by lspitzner)

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Manipulating Haskell source: abstract syntax, lexer, parser, and pretty-printer (by haskell-suite)

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brittany		haskell-src-exts
	Project
7	Mentions	2
689	Stars	193
-	Growth	0.0%
0.0	Activity	0.0
over 1 year ago	Latest Commit	9 months ago
Haskell	Language	Haskell
GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 only	License	BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License

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brittany

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Announce end of maintenance by tfausak · Pull Request #377 · lspitzner/brittany
1 project | /r/haskell | 11 Nov 2022
Format multiline imports in hls (emacs)
2 projects | /r/haskell | 23 Apr 2022

You will also need a formatter that uses that style. Brittany for example. The default formattingProvider for HLS is ormolu, which I believe doesn't use this style, so you will have to change this setting.
Why is there no "standard" formatting tool for haskell?
4 projects | /r/haskell | 4 Jan 2022

Yeah I couldn't find anything at all which is really unfortunate. You could check out the config source code
Advent of Code 2021 day 1
5 projects | /r/haskell | 1 Dec 2021

Turns out I prefer Brittany to Ormolu, I edited it so it hopefully looks less verbose all on one line
Let's talk about Brittany
4 projects | /r/haskell | 23 Apr 2021

I use Brittany and prefer it to Ormolu, because it aligns more things and it break lines that are too long automatically. I have recently tried to figure out how I could implement a solution to https://github.com/lspitzner/brittany/issues/157, but it is quite hard to figure out which parts of the code would be involved in such a change. And I don't really have enough time to make steady contributions, but I will probably try to make a few contributions sometime.

haskell-src-exts

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Let's talk about Brittany
4 projects | /r/haskell | 23 Apr 2021

Hindent relies on haskell-src-exts which hasn't been updated for more than a year, so I end up using my own fork of both while my PR is pending. I've also made a number of changes to my Hindent fork to my preferences. Fortunately stack makes it easy to use particular git commits for packages.
[ANN] hindent 5.3.2 released
1 project | /r/haskell | 1 Feb 2021

Does this support StandAloneKindSignatures and visible forall quantification? I have an 8mo old PR to haskell-src-exts for these but it doesn't look like it's been merged.