Ghcide: My pragmas keep shouting at me

[emilypi]

Hey all, you have a great project here, and I'm liking the progress. My only gripe so far is that whenever ghcide prompts me to add an extension, it inserts a very loud pragma LANGUAGE or INLINE or MINIMAL etc. This is a very low priority feature request, but you could add the ability to write lower-case extensions so that I can have an indoor conversation with my compiler?

Thanks

[ndmitchell]

Since Haskell users tend to default to SHOUTY by a significant margin, I think it would have to be a preference - but not an unreasonable one to add. Our preference handling is not something we've invested much in, so that might be a prerequisite.

[emilypi]

Point me in the write direction and I can do it for you guys 😄

[wz1000]

The code action is generated here: https://github.com/haskell/ghcide/blob/master/src/Development/IDE/Plugin/CodeAction.hs#L512

The preferences mechanism is a bit more involved and doesn't currently work, #857 should fix it.

[pepeiborra]

Easiest thing to do is to generate two code actions, one SHOUTY and one not

[alanz]

Easiest thing to do is to generate two code actions, one SHOUTY and one not

We already have too many, cluttering the UI

I think it would be better to make this configurable. Default as current, but you can set it.

[wz1000]

Another option would be to detect the style being used in the file, and then respect that. This way we do not need a configuration option, and things just work (except for the first time you add a language extension).

[ndmitchell]

I suspect the "ideal" solution would be a setting, with three values - SHOUT, whisper and FollowThisFile.

[georgefst]

897 uses OPTIONS_GHC in all caps as well. Just another one to bear in mind.