Clojure layer

Description

This layer adds support for Clojure language using CIDER.

Features:

REPL via CIDER
Code formatting via CIDER using Cljfmt
Refactoring via clj-refactor
Aligning of code forms via clojure-mode
Debugging with sayid
Clojure cheatsheet
Structuraly safe editing using optional evil-cleverparens

Install

Layer

To use this configuration layer, add it to your ~/.spacemacs. You will need to add clojure to the existing dotspacemacs-configuration-layers list in this file.

Pretty Symbols

Pretty symbols for anonymous functions, set literals and partial, like (λ [a] (+ a 5)), ƒ(+ % 5), ∈{2 4 6} and Ƥ.

To enable this feature, add the following snippet to the dotspacemacs/user-config section of your ~/.spacemacs file:

(setq clojure-enable-fancify-symbols t)

Or set this variable when loading the configuration layer:

(setq-default dotspacemacs-configuration-layers
'((clojure :variables clojure-enable-fancify-symbols t)))

Enabling sayid or clj-refactor

The packages sayid (Clojure debugger) and clj-refactor (automatic refactorings) are disabled by default. To enable them, add a `:variables` option when enabling the `clojure` layer, specifying `clojure-enable-sayid`, or `clojure-enable-clj-refactor`, or both.

In your Spacemacs configuration:

;; before
dotspacemacs-configuration-layers
'(...
  clojure
  )

;; after
dotspacemacs-configuration-layers
'(...
  (clojure :variables
           clojure-enable-sayid t
           clojure-enable-clj-refactor t)
  )

Enabling either of these packages will cause extra nREPL middleware to be injected when jacking in CIDER.

Starting Clojure manually (outside of Emacs)

CIDER communicates with your Clojure process through nREPL, and for CIDER to function correctly extra nREPL middleware needs to be present (cider/cider-nrepl). The same is true for clj-refactor (refactor-nrepl), and for sayid (com.billpiel/sayid).

When starting the Clojure process through cider (`cider-jack-in` and friends) this will be handled automatically, and so most users should be able to just run SPC m s i to connect to the CIDER REPL and skip the rest of this section.

If you are running an older version of CIDER (0.10 or older), or if you are starting the Clojure process yourself outside of Emacs, then you need to make sure the necessary dependencies are present, and the necessary nREPL middlewares are enabled.

Quick Start with boot

Install boot (see https://github.com/boot-clj/boot#user-content-install)

Create a file ~/.boot/profile.boot with the following content:

(require 'boot.repl)

(swap! boot.repl/*default-dependencies* conj
       ;; When running an older version of CIDER (pre 0.18), use the
       ;; version that best matches M-x cider-version. For versions since
       ;; 0.18.0 use whatever version is the most recent.
       '[cider/cider-nrepl "0.19.0-SNAPSHOT"]

       ;; Only necessary when using clj-refactor
       '[refactor-nrepl "2.4.0"]

       ;; Only necessary when using sayid
       '[com.billpiel/sayid "0.0.17"])

(swap! boot.repl/*default-middleware* conj
       'cider.nrepl/cider-middleware
       'refactor-nrepl.middleware/wrap-refactor
       'com.billpiel.sayid.nrepl-middleware/wrap-sayid)

Quick Start with lein

Install lein version 2.5.2 or newer (see https://leiningen.org/#install)

Create a file ~/.lein/profiles.clj with the following content:

{:repl
 {:plugins [;; When running an older version of CIDER (pre 0.18), use the
            ;; version that best matches M-x cider-version. For versions since
            ;; 0.18.0 use whatever version is the most recent.
            [cider/cider-nrepl "0.19.0-SNAPSHOT"]

            ;; Only necessary when using clj-refactor
            [refactor-nrepl "2.4.0"]

            ;; Only necessary when using sayid
            [com.billpiel/sayid "0.0.17"]]

  :dependencies [[nrepl "0.4.5"]]

  :repl-options
  {:nrepl-middleware [cider.nrepl/cider-middleware
                      refactor-nrepl.middleware/wrap-refactor ;; clj-refactor
                      com.billpiel.sayid.nrepl-middleware/wrap-sayid ;; sayid
                      ]}}}

More details

More info regarding installation of nREPL middleware can be found here:

CIDER: CIDER installation (official docs)
clj-refactor: refactor-nrepl

Usage

Cheatsheet

This layers installs the clojure-cheatsheet package which embeds this useful cheatsheet into Emacs.

Type SPC m h c to display the cheatsheet then type in some terms (space separated) to narrow down the list. For example, try typing in sort map to see some functions that deal with sorting maps.

Structuraly safe editing

This layer adds support for evil-cleverparens which allows to safely edit lisp code by keeping the s-expressions balanced.

By default this mode is not activated. You can turn it on locally on the active buffer with SPC m T s (s for safe).

To turn it on automatically for all clojure buffers call the following function in your dotspacemacs/user-config function:

(spacemacs/toggle-evil-safe-lisp-structural-editing-on-register-hook-clojure-mode)

or to enable it for all supported modes:

(spacemacs/toggle-evil-safe-lisp-structural-editing-on-register-hooks)

When enabled the symbol 🆂 should be displayed in the mode-line.

Key bindings

Working with clojure files (barfage, slurpage & more)

Spacemacs comes with a special lisp-state for working with lisp code that supports slurpage, barfage and more tools you’ll likely want when working with lisp.

As this state works the same for all files, the documentation is in global DOCUMENTATION.org. In general, use SPC k to interact with the lisp-state.

Leader

Documentation

Key binding	Description
`SPC m h a`	cider apropos
`SPC m h c`	clojure cheatsheet
`SPC m h g`	cider grimoire
`SPC m h h`	cider doc
`SPC m h j`	cider javadoc
`SPC m h n`	cider browse namespace
`SPC m h N`	cider browse all namespaces

Evaluation

Key binding	Description
`SPC m e ;`	eval sexp and show result as comment
`SPC m e b`	eval buffer
`SPC m e e`	eval last sexp
`SPC m e f`	eval function at point
`SPC m e r`	eval region
`SPC m e m`	cider macroexpand 1
`SPC m e M`	cider macroexpand all
`SPC m e p`	print last sexp (clojure interaction mode only)
`SPC m e P`	eval last sexp and pretty print result in separate buffer
`SPC m e w`	eval last sexp and replace with result

Goto

Key binding	Description
`SPC m g b`	go back
`SPC m g C`	browse classpath
`SPC m g g`	goto var
`SPC m g e`	goto error
`SPC m g n`	goto namespace
`SPC m g r`	goto resource
`SPC m g s`	browse spec
`SPC m g S`	browse all specs

REPL

Key binding	Description
`SPC m ,`	handle shortcut (cider-repl-handle-shortcut)
`SPC m s b`	send and eval buffer in REPL
`SPC m s B`	send and eval buffer and switch to REPL in `insert state`
`SPC m s c`	connect to REPL (cider-connect) or clear repl buffer (cider-repl-clear-buffer)
`SPC m s C`	clear REPL (cider-find-and-clear-repl-output)
`SPC m s e`	send and eval last sexp in REPL
`SPC m s E`	send and eval last sexp and switch to REPL in `insert state`
`SPC m s f`	send and eval function in REPL
`SPC m s F`	send and eval function and switch to REPL in `insert state`
`SPC m s i`	start REPL (cider-jack-in)
`SPC m s I`	start clojurescript REPL (cider-jack-in-clojurescript)
`SPC m s n`	send and eval ns form in REPL
`SPC m s N`	send and eval ns form and switch to REPL in `insert state`
`SPC m s q`	kill REPL (cider-quit)
`SPC m s o`	switch to other repl instance (cider-repl-switch-to-other)
`SPC m s r`	send and eval region in REPL
`SPC m s R`	send and eval region and switch to REPL in `insert state`
`SPC m s s`	switch to REPL or jump to last file or last clj buffer from repl (cider-repl)
`SPC m s x`	refresh REPL
`SPC m s X`	restart REPL

Tests

Key binding	Description
`SPC m t a`	run all tests in namespace
`SPC m t r`	re-run test failures for namespace
`SPC m t t`	run test at point

Toggles

Key binding	Description
`SPC m T e`	toggle englighten mode
`SPC m T f`	toggle REPL font-locking
`SPC m T i`	toggle indentation style
`SPC m T p`	toggle REPL pretty-printing
`SPC m T t`	toggle auto test mode

Debugging

Key binding	Description
`SPC m d !`	reload traces and clear sayid workspace
`SPC m d b`	instrument expression at point
`SPC m d c`	clear workspace trace log
`SPC m d e`	display last stacktrace
`SPC m d E`	one time display of value at cursor
`SPC m d f`	query form at point
`SPC m d h`	show sayid help (key bindings may not be accurate)
`SPC m d i`	inspect expression at point
`SPC m d r`	reload namespaces
`SPC m d s`	show what is currently traced
`SPC m d S`	show what is currently traced in current namespace
`SPC m d t b`	trace current file’s namespace
`SPC m d t d`	disable existing trace on current function
`SPC m d t D`	disable existing trace on all functions
`SPC m d t e`	enable existing trace on current function
`SPC m d t E`	enable existing trace on all functions
`SPC m d t K`	remove all traces
`SPC m d t n`	create inner trace on function
`SPC m d t o`	create outer trace on function
`SPC m d t p`	trace namespaces by regex
`SPC m d t r`	remove trace on function
`SPC m d t y`	recursively trace every namespace in given dir
`SPC m d v`	inspect expression at point
`SPC m d V`	set the view
`SPC m d w`	open sayid workspace window
`SPC m d x`	clear workspace traces and log

Refactoring

The following refactoring key bindings are enabled by default in clojure-mode:

Key binding	Description
`SPC m r c i`	cycle between if and if-not forms
`SPC m r c p`	cycle privacy of defn and def forms
`SPC m r c (`	convert coll to list
`SPC m r c '`	convert coll to quoted list
`SPC m r c {`	convert coll to map
`SPC m r c #`	convert coll to set
`SPC m r c [`	convert coll to vector
`SPC m r t f`	rewrite the following form to use the -> (thread first) macro.
`SPC m r t l`	rewrite the following form to use the ->> (thread last) macro.
`SPC m r t h`	thread another form into the surrounding threading macro
`SPC m r u a`	unwind all steps of surrounding threading macro
`SPC m r u w`	unwind threading macro one step at a time

The following refactorings require cljr-refactor to be enabled and generally depend on a connected CIDER session.

Key binding	Description
`SPC m r ?`	describe refactoring
`SPC m r a d`	add declaration
`SPC m r a i`	add import to ns
`SPC m r a m`	add missing libspec
`SPC m r a p`	add project dependency
`SPC m r a r`	add require to ns
`SPC m r a u`	add use to ns
`SPC m r c :`	toggle between keyword and string
`SPC m r c n`	clean ns
`SPC m r d k`	destructure keys
`SPC m r e c`	extract constant
`SPC m r e d`	extract definition
`SPC m r e f`	extract function
`SPC m r e l`	expand let
`SPC m r f u`	find usages
`SPC m r f e`	create fn from example
`SPC m r h d`	hotload dependency
`SPC m r i l`	introduce let
`SPC m r i s`	inline symbol
`SPC m r m f`	move form
`SPC m r m l`	move to let
`SPC m r p c`	project clean
`SPC m r p f`	promote function
`SPC m r r d`	remove debug fns
`SPC m r r f`	rename file
`SPC m r r l`	remove let
`SPC m r r r`	remove unused requires
`SPC m r r s`	rename symbol
`SPC m r r u`	replace use
`SPC m r s n`	sort ns
`SPC m r s p`	sort project dependencies
`SPC m r s r`	stop referring
`SPC m r s c`	show changelog
`SPC m r u p`	update project dependencies

Reformatting

Key binding	Description
`SPC m f b` or `SPC m =`	reformat current buffer
`SPC m f l`	realign current form

Profiling

Key binding	Description
`SPC m p +`	profile samples
`SPC m p c`	clear profile
`SPC m p n`	toggle profile ns
`SPC m p s`	profile summary
`SPC m p S`	summary for all
`SPC m p t`	toggle profile
`SPC m p v`	is variable profiled

CIDER Buffers

In general, q should always quit the popped up buffer.

cider-repl-mode

Key binding	Description
`C-j`	next input
`C-k`	previous input

stacktrace-mode

Key binding	Description
`C-j`	next cause
`C-k`	previous cause
`TAB`	cycle current cause
`0`	cycle all causes
`1`	cycle cause 1
`2`	cycle cause 2
`3`	cycle cause 3
`4`	cycle cause 4
`5`	cycle cause 5
`a`	toggle all
`c`	toggle clj
`d`	toggle duplicates
`J`	toggle java
`r`	toggle repl
`T`	toggle tooling

inspector-mode

Key binding	Description
`TAB`	next inspectable object
`Shift-TAB`	previous inspectable object
`RET`	inspect object
`L`	pop to the parent object
`n`	next page in paginated view
`N`	previous page in paginated view
`r`	refresh
`s`	set a new page size

test-report-mode

Key binding	Description
`C-j`	next result
`C-k`	previous result
`RET`	jump to test
`d`	ediff test result
`e`	show stacktrace
`r`	rerun failed tests
`t`	run test
`T`	run tests

Sayid Buffers

sayid-mode

Key binding	Description
`Shift-Backspace`	forward buffer state
`enter`	pop to function
`d`	def value to $s/*
`f`	query for calls to function
`F`	query to calls to function with modifier
`i`	show only this instance
`I`	show only this instance with modifier
`L` or `Backspace`	previous buffer state
`n`	jump to next call
`N`	jump to previous call
`P`	pretty print value
`C`	clear workspace trace log
`e`	generate instance expression and put in kill ring
`H`	display help (key bindings may not be accurate)
`w`	show full workspace trace
`C-s v`	toggle view
`C-s V`	set view

sayid-traced-mode

Key binding	Description
`backspace`	go back to trace overview
`enter`	drill into ns at point
`e`	enable trace
`E`	enable all traces
`d`	disable trace
`D`	disable all traces
`h`	display help (key bindings may not be accurate)
`i`	apply inner trace to function at point
`o`	apply outer trace to function at point
`r`	remove trace at point

sayid-pprint

Key binding	Description
`enter`	show path in minibuffer
`i`	enter child node
`o`	enter parent node
`n`	enter next sibling node
`p`	enter previous sibling node

Development Notes

Indentation

With a new functionality of Cider to read the custom indentation rules from the var’s metadata, it is better for consistency reasons to not add the custom indentation rules to Spacemacs, but to add them to the metadata of those specific vars.

Files

README.org

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