STYLISH-HASKELL(1)

💖 STYLISH-HASKELL 💖

okay bestie, welcome to stylish-haskell(1), the manual page for the simple Haskell code prettifier — she's section 1 of the manual, she's here to make your code cute, and she has literally no drama. 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

stylish-haskell — simple Haskell code prettifier 🦋

no cap, that's the whole job description.

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

stylish-haskell [-c|--config=FILE] [-v|--verbose] [-i|--inplace]
[--no-utf8] [FILES]...

stylish-haskell -d|--defaults

stylish-haskell -?|--help

stylish-haskell --version

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

so here's the vibe: stylish-haskell does automatic formatting on the Haskell code in the files you pass on the command line, or on whatever you pipe in through STDIN. iconic behaviour honestly. 👑

it outputs to STDOUT unless -i is specified — meaning if you don't say -i, she shows you the glow-up, she does not touch your actual files. read that again. she's respectful like that. 💖

STDIN is assumed to be encoded UTF-8, unless the --no-utf8 option is used.

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🌈 OPTIONS 🌈

• -c, --config=FILE — override the default configuration file. you want a different config? say less, point her at FILE. ✨
• -v, --verbose — turn on verbose output. she will talk, and honestly we love that for her. 🗣️
• -i, --inplace — prettify and overwrite the given files in place. 💀 yes, this one actually rewrites your files. no take-backs. be brave. (maybe commit first, bestie, i'm just saying 🫶)
• -d, --defaults — dump the default config and exit. perfect for peeking at what she ships with. 🎁
• -?, --help — output help text and exit. the classic. the icon. 🧚
• --version — output version information and exit. know your queen's number. 👑
• --no-utf8 — don't assume that STDIN is encoded UTF-8, and don't force UTF-8 output. for when the encoding situation is giving chaos. 🌸

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🫶 AUTHOR 🫶

this manual page was originally written by Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> for the Debian GNU/Linux system — but it may be used by others, so like, share the love. 💜

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⭐ little recap before you go: -c/--config=FILE for configs, -v/--verbose for chatter, -i/--inplace to actually write (careful!!), -d/--defaults to dump config, -?/--help for help, --version for the version, --no-utf8 for non-UTF-8 input. periodt. 💅

okay that's the whole page — this version of the page is dated 2026-02-21 and belongs to STYLISH-HASKELL(1), the section 1 manual. go format something gorgeous. mwah. 💖🌈✨