Introduce the StatusBarItem
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Includes the arguments passed to the server, the logging configuration, working directory, anything that is supposed to stay constant during the execution of a single HLS instance. Note, it is not promised to stay constant over restarts.
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I don't know how to review this huge patch, the best way is probably to check it out and trying to understand how the extension is now structured. The commits themselves are somewhat self containing, at least I tried to make sure they are. Happy for any feedback, otherwise I will just merge it in a couple of weeks and deal with any fallout. |
This 'StatusBarItem' improves the discoverability of the most important interactions between the user and the extension. This includes debug information, such as the version of the extension, showing the output panel to find the logs more easily, but also to restart all running Haskell Language Server binaries and the extension itself.
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The primary motivation for this PR is to make the vscode-haskell extension much friendlier for newcomers.
My idea to improve this is a
StatusBarItemthat looks like this:The
StatusBarItemoffers the following actions:serverExecutablePathis not picked up byRestart HLS)My goal would be for the future to extend the features presented here, for example:
redand display options to help the user understand what went wrong. For example, it could offer to re-display the error message, or some kind of "debug this error" functionality.That's the main motivation.
Initially, I felt it was tricky to do the kinds of changes I wanted to implement, so I went on a complete tangent and started refactoring the extension to avoid side effects, ad-hoc logic, non-uniform accesses to configuration and similar.
Thus, large parts of this PR are about improving the extension to make it easier to maintain and extend. The main refactorings are:
ghcupprocess management into dedicated classI am still unhappy with the code path for finding HLS binaries using GHCup. This is rather complicated logic, for which I couldn't extract or find a pattern, yet.
Even without it, I think I am overall improving the readability of most of the extension.