Using ghcid inside of emacs

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Pieces you need:

* emacs
* ghcid

ghcid needs to know the height of the terminal, we'll set it explicitly 

height = (window-height) - (scroll-margin) - 1

set this height as your term-buffer-maximum-size

    (setq term-buffer-maximum-size XXX)

Start an ansi-term session using bash

    SPC-'
    
run ghcid with this height, in your project root

    ghcid -c "cabal repl" -h HEIGHT

turn on compilation-minor-mode in the buffer

    

@nkpart I wrote the following helper based on your notes, seems to work okay so far:

(defun ghcid ()
  "Runs ghcid in a `term' buffer."
  (interactive)
  (require 'term)
  (let* ((cmd "ghcid")
         (h (- (window-height) scroll-margin 3))
         (term-buffer-maximum-size h)
         (args (format "-h %d" h))
         (switches (split-string-and-unquote args))
         (termbuf (apply 'make-term "ghcid" cmd nil switches)))
    (set-buffer termbuf)
    (term-mode)
    (term-char-mode)
    (compilation-minor-mode)
    (switch-to-buffer termbuf)))

I put project-specific configuration into .ghci and .ghcid files, so don't need to provide any further command-line arguments to ghcid.