do you have the symbol hi in your code anywhere?

Nope.

I get it eval'ing even the simplest sexp such as (+ 1 1)

can you view your messages buffer and see if there's anything strange in there?

Messages

well, that's Messages with earmuffs, which make it bold in slack

(Making sure I have a clean installation...)

also, can you run nrepl-toggle-message-logging and try to demonstrate it again

this will show the nrepl messages going back and forth and we can try to see where it gets the symbol hi

Aaaand after a clean install it has gone a way...

of cider?

oh well. sorry about the weirdness

if you ever want to dig a little in the future, check out nrepl-toggle-message-logging

and you can see what emacs and the jvm are sending back and forth

can help you start rooting around

Thanks, sorry for the noise!

not noise at all!

(For the record I was on the Nov 27 snapshot when I was facing the issue and it has gone away in Dec 01 snapshot)

Thanks though!

hm, after a while it is coming back again...

nrepl-messages is silent, and same 'Symbol's value as variable is void: hi', in a different project...

Debugged my init.el and tracked it down to " after loading cider-eval-sexp-fu things stop working". Disabling that made everything work again, I think.

@iku000888 what did you disable? I didn't really follow that

I disabled a package called 'cider-eval-sexp-fu' which apparently contained the breakage with latest cider/some other package I was using. Sorry for the mumbling!

Everything is good, without the fancy flashing when I eval sexp's, but I can totally live with out them

@juhoteperi Thanks, but I'd prefer not to have to include style related code in my codebase. Think I'll stick to defining each symbol explicitely in my .spacemacs

PRs to the libraries would also be good solution in long term

There was already a PR about this (om.dom) and it was rejected by the library author. I can understand why tbh, I'm not sure metadata is the right approach. Ideally you want to leave this stuff to each individual and their editor and keep the code clean.