hsearch provides a native Emacs way to search Hoogle and Hayoo.
Place hsearch-mode.el on your load-path by adding this to your
user-init-file, usually ~/.emacs or ~/.emacs.d/init.el
(add-to-list 'load-path "~/PATH_TO_HSEARCH")
Load the code:
- (autoload 'hsearch-mode "hsearch"
- "Major mode for searching Haskell." nil)
hsearch is roughly divided into three categories. A generic model based on EIEIO (Elisp implementation of CLOS), the Emacs display and control functions and the adapters for Hoogle and Hayoo.
hsearch-query is the model associated with a query to Hoogle or
Hayoo. It contains the raw query string, the request URL and a list
of results that match the query.
Each result is an hsearch-result class composed of a category, name,
signature, locations and a documentation string. Each of these fields
is also a class.
Each class defined in hsearch implements the hsearch-renderable
interface to provide the render method. To write the results to the
display buffer, we call (render query) and depend on each of the
fields within query to render themselves. The hsearch-query is
the only class that inserts text into a buffer, allowing us
flexibility for any final tweaks to the output.
hsearch-mode provides all commands for working with the *hsearch*
buffer.
Currently, hsearch parses the HTML response from Hoogle to build an
hsearch-query. The code makes many assumptions and is fragile.
There is hope that Hoogle will at some point provide a JSON response.
Yet to be written.