ghci-ng: Extended GHCi fork

This provides an augmented version of ghci-7.6.3 installed under the name ghci-ng containing backported, proposed and experimental features.

Currently, ghci-ng has the following additional features compared to the vanilla ghci-7.6.3 program:

backported :complete command for non-interactive completion (see GHC#5687)
backported customizable continuation prompt (:set prompt2) and bugfix for :set +m-style completion (see GHC#8076)
Support for %l line-number prompt substitution (proposed for GHC 7.8, GHC#8047)
Add :show linker command to :help output (GHC#8074)
Add missing :show imports to completion table (GHC#7075)
Fix GHCi macros not shadowing builtins (GHC#8113)
Supports being used via cabal repl --with-ghc=ghci-ng

Versions [faq]	7.4.2.1, 7.6.3.1, 7.6.3.2, 7.6.3.3, 7.6.3.4, 7.6.3.5, 10.0.0
Dependencies	array (==0.4.), base (==4.6.), bytestring (==0.10.), directory (==1.2.), filepath (==1.3.), ghc (>=7.6.1 && <7.7), ghc-paths (>=0.1.0.9 && <0.2), haskeline (==0.7.), process (==1.1.), transformers (==0.3.), unix, Win32 [details]
License	BSD-3-Clause
Copyright	© 2005 The University of Glasgow
Author	The GHC Team
Maintainer	hvr@gnu.org
Category	Development
Home page	https://github.com/hvr/ghci-ng
Source repo	head: git clone git://github.com/hvr/ghci-ng.git
Uploaded	by HerbertValerioRiedel at 2013-08-23T17:51:53Z
Distributions	NixOS:10.0.0
Executables	ghci-ng
Downloads	7319 total (15 in the last 30 days)
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