Phoityne VSCode

Phoityne is a ghci debug viewer for Visual Studio Code. (on Windows)

Debug on VSCode

1. Start VSCode
2. Open stack project folder
3. Open debug view
4. Open launch.json
5. Set startup source file. Default file is test/Spec.hs
6. Run debug(F5)

Important

• Breakpoint can be set in a .hs file which defineds "module ... where".
• Source file extension must be ".hs"
• When you start debugging for the first time, .vscode/tasks.json will be created automatically. Then you can use F6, F7, F8 shortcut key.

Install

Run stack install

% stack install phoityne-vscode
  . . . . .
%

Add 'phoityne-vscode.exe' to PATH environment.

% where $path:phoityne-vscode.exe
C:\Users\phoityne\AppData\Roaming\local\bin\phoityne-vscode.exe

%

Install vscode extensions

1. ctrlr + p on Visual Studio Code
2. ext install haskell ...
3. select "Haskell GHCi debug viewer Phoityne"

Key Bindings

• F5 : start debug
• F6 : show command menu (for stack watch)
• Shift + F6 : stop stack watch
• F7 : stack clean & build
• F8 : stack test