There is no *cider-server* buffer

One workaround is to do M-x cider-connect and connect to a repl started outside Cider. This gives me logs in a terminal, and a repl in Emacs. Problem is, when doing so, Cider doesn’t get to inject its middleware:

WARNING: CIDER requires nREPL 0.2.12 (or newer) to work properly
         More information.
WARNING: CIDER's version (0.14.0-snapshot) does not match cider-nrepl's version (nil). Things will break!
         More information.
WARNING: clj-refactor and refactor-nrepl are out of sync.
Their versions are 2.3.0-SNAPSHOT (package: 20160621.902) and n/a, respectively.
You can mute this warning by changing cljr-suppress-middleware-warnings.

I guess I might have to add the middlewares to my .lein/profiles.clj

yes, setting up the middelwares the old way was the way to go.

i know of

cider-test-jump

Is there a way to pprint or inspect the current value in the debugger?

The inspect keybinding asks for a symbol but when stepping I often don’t have one, would like to have something like *1 in the repl

Damn it was right under my nose, cider-inspect-last-result

Unfortunately getting Sync nREPL timed out errors