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06/07: gnu: stylish-haskell: Update description.


From: guix-commits
Subject: 06/07: gnu: stylish-haskell: Update description.
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2020 16:38:31 -0400 (EDT)

mbakke pushed a commit to branch master
in repository guix.

commit 156b08bd2fcd7dc66d59f2312ddce3f04a28007c
Author: John Soo <address@hidden>
AuthorDate: Fri Dec 13 06:29:27 2019 -0800

    gnu: stylish-haskell: Update description.
    
    * gnu/packages/haskell-apps.scm (stylish-haskell): Update description.
    
    Signed-off-by: Marius Bakke <address@hidden>
---
 gnu/packages/haskell-apps.scm | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/gnu/packages/haskell-apps.scm b/gnu/packages/haskell-apps.scm
index f5b45d0..12cb857 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/haskell-apps.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/haskell-apps.scm
@@ -754,8 +754,26 @@ advanced user's otherwise working script to fail under 
future circumstances.
        ("ghc-test-framework-hunit" ,ghc-test-framework-hunit)))
     (home-page "https://github.com/jaspervdj/stylish-haskell";)
     (synopsis "Haskell code prettifier")
-    (description
-     "A simple Haskell code prettifier.  The goal is not to format all of the
-code in a file, just clean up import statements and a few other tedious
-items.  This tool tries to help where necessary without getting in the way.")
+    (description "Stylish-haskell is a Haskell code prettifier.  The goal is
+not to format all of the code in a file, to avoid \"getting in the way\".
+However, this tool can e.g. clean up import statements and help doing various
+tasks that get tedious very quickly.  It can
+@itemize
+@item
+Align and sort @code{import} statements
+@item
+Group and wrap @code{{-# LANGUAGE #-}} pragmas, remove (some) redundant
+pragmas
+@item
+Remove trailing whitespaces
+@item
+Align branches in @code{case} and fields in records
+@item
+Convert line endings (customisable)
+@item
+Replace tabs by four spaces (turned off by default)
+@item
+Replace some ASCII sequences by their Unicode equivalent (turned off by
+default)
+@end itemize")
     (license license:bsd-3)))



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