Haskell-ide-engine: Document that auto-import doesn't work when you don't have a Hoogle database

Created on 23 Aug 2019  路  4Comments  路  Source: haskell/haskell-ide-engine

Spent about half an hour goofing around with my hie and vim settings only to realize the hsimport feature doesn't work unless you have a Hoogle database. Could we document this caveat in the README?

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Adding a warning and documentation seems very sensible to me, I am in favour of doing both

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We could document that some stuff generally doesnt work if the Hoogle DB is missing, e.g. when no documentation is locally available, Hoogle is asked for documentation.

But there should be a LSP-Warning when the HoogleDB is missing, which should be enough already.

I've seen that warning before, but I had no idea what the warning pertained to (as in, why do I need a Hoogle database). What's missing for a new user is the association between use of hsimport and the Hoogle database (either in docs or in the warning).

Adding a warning and documentation seems very sensible to me, I am in favour of doing both

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