Support for Bird-style Literate Haskell

[Jean-Marie Gaillourdet <jmg@gaillourdet.net>]

Hi everybody,

I'd be interested to use org syntax in the comments of a literate haskell file. I know and use occasionally org-babel. Though, this question is not about org-babel. I am merely interested in telling org-mode to leave the code parts of a literate Haskell file alone, i.e. similar to code blocks in org-mode. I have no propblem with switching between org-mode and literate-haskell-mode depending on what I am currently editing. I am not interested in org-babel because I don't want to have a separate weaving step in my build system.

In case you don't know: Literate Haskell files (ending with .lhs) come in two flavors: bird style and latex style. In bird style every line is a comment unless it has '>' in the first column. And in latex style code blocks are surround with \begin{code} and \end{code}. Haskell implementations do not care what is in the non-code parts. So, I'd like to use org markup and especially the editing features of org-mode. I'd prefer to work in bird-style and latex-style would be fine as well.

Do you have any ideas/pointers how to achieve that?

Thanks for your help!

Cheers, 
 Jean