Merge pull request #588 from hasufell/issue-587

Improve error message, fixes #587

Author: fendor

src/errors.ts

@@ -51,7 +51,9 @@ export class MissingToolError extends HlsError {
 
 export class NoMatchingHls extends Error {
   constructor(readonly ghcProjVersion: string) {
-    const noMatchingHLS = `No HLS version was found for supporting GHC ${ghcProjVersion}.`;
-    super(noMatchingHLS);
+    super(`HLS does not support GHC ${ghcProjVersion} yet.`);
+  }
+  public docLink(): Uri {
+	return Uri.parse('https://haskell-language-server.readthedocs.io/en/latest/supported-versions.html');
   }
 }

src/extension.ts

@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ import {
 import { CommandNames } from './commands/constants';
 import { ImportIdentifier } from './commands/importIdentifier';
 import { DocsBrowser } from './docsBrowser';
-import { HlsError, MissingToolError } from './errors';
+import { HlsError, MissingToolError, NoMatchingHls } from './errors';
 import { findHaskellLanguageServer, IEnvVars } from './hlsBinaries';
 import { addPathToProcessPath, expandHomeDir, ExtensionLogger } from './utils';
 
@@ -176,6 +176,12 @@ async function activateServerForFolder(context: ExtensionContext, uri: Uri, fold
     } else if (e instanceof HlsError) {
       logger.error(`General HlsError: ${e.message}`);
       window.showErrorMessage(e.message);
+    } else if (e instanceof NoMatchingHls) {
+      const link = e.docLink();
+      logger.error(`${e.message}`);
+      if (await window.showErrorMessage(e.message, `Open documentation`)) {
+        env.openExternal(link);
+      }
     } else if (e instanceof Error) {
       logger.error(`Internal Error: ${e.message}`);
       window.showErrorMessage(e.message);