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Expand Up @@ -110,4 +110,8 @@ Setup steps:
- Install the plugins `Haskell` (Haskell Language Server support), `Haskell Syntax` and `Nix Environment Selector`
- Generate the `hie.yaml` file: `make hie.yaml`
- Select the nix environment from `shell.nix` with the command `Nix-Env: Select environment`.
- Reload the window as proposed by the `Nix Environment Selector` plugin
- Reload the window as proposed by the `Nix Environment Selector` plugin

An alternative way to make these dependencies accessible to VSCode is to start it in the `direnv` environment.
I.e. from a shell that's current working directory is in the project. The drawbacks of this approach are
that it only works locally (not on a remote connection) and one VSCode process needs to be started per project.