showTypeForSelection working?

[jamesdbrock]

This “show type of selected expression on hover” feature haskell/vscode-haskell#40 is great. Is this currently working?

I can’t find any mention of this feature in the README.md.

I tried this in my settings.json and nothing happens.

  "languageServerHaskell.showTypeForSelection.onHover": "true",
  "languageServerHaskell.showTypeForSelection.command.location": "dropdown",

I don't see any mention of this in the logs, for example ~/.config/Code/logs/20210624T170820/exthost1/output_logging_20210624T170826/5-Haskell\ \(IHaskell2\).log

VSCode v1.57.1
haskell.haskell extension v1.4.0

[jneira]

Wow, thanks for linking the pr, i was not aware that worked at some point.
I am afraid at that moment the unique lsp server of the extension was haskell-ide-engine which supported the feature added in that pr.
Now the unique lsp server is haskell-language-server and it does not support it. 😞
We have a feature request in hls about and knowing it worked in hie maybe could help us to reimplement it again (although it used ghcmod, which is complicated to integrate again)

[jneira]

If you dont mind i am gonna close it as duplicate of the mentioned issue: #709, you could track the progress an eventual implementation there.