# Tools
## Don't install or try to use ghc-mod if you're a beginner
It's a bit fragile, more than a bit slow, and it's not worth the grief.
## Text Editors
- Emacs
- [Install haskell-mode ](https://github.com/bitemyapp/dotfiles/blob/master/.emacs#L31 )
- [Install flycheck ](https://github.com/bitemyapp/dotfiles/blob/master/.emacs#L29 )
- Enable and configure Haskell, this can be just `(require 'haskell)` if you don't care about anything else.
- [Enable flycheck ](https://github.com/bitemyapp/dotfiles/blob/master/.emacs#L97 )
- Symlink Stack to `/usr/bin` or otherwise make sure flycheck can find it
- [dunzo. ](https://twitter.com/bitemyapp/status/693621160571985920 )
- Vim
- We recommend [Stephen Diehl's vim instructions ](http://www.stephendiehl.com/posts/vim_2016.html ) but we suggest replacing ghc-mod with the below for now.
- For getting type errors in vim reliably (in lieu of ghc-mod)
```
autocmd FileType haskell setlocal makeprg=stack\ build
autocmd FileType haskell setlocal errorformat=%f:%l:%v:%m
```
from: https://github.com/ishiy1993/dotfiles/blob/master/.vimrc
- [Sublime Text ](https://github.com/SublimeHaskell/SublimeHaskell )
- [Atom ](https://atom.io/packages/ide-haskell )
- [IntelliJ ](https://github.com/carymrobbins/intellij-haskforce )
- Notepad++ has basic Haskell support built in.
- gedit has basic Haskell support built in.
## Other
- Haskell For Mac
