I’m working on a library to format clojure.spec errors. When error are (intentionally) thrown, I see a difference between the output in *cider-repl localhost* and in *cider-error* - namely, *cider-error* doesn’t look correct with respect to newlines https://gist.github.com/bhb/3a6327773c8e6b490ff249bed5c20b55

Error are thrown when spec “instrumentation” is enabled and the user calls a function with invalid params

does the *cider-error* handle newlines in a special way or expect multi-line strings to be formatted in a specific way? I’m on cider 0.15.0

@bbrinck can you post a screenshot of the whole *cider-error* buffer?

yes, can do. i have also corrected the gist: i messed it up when I tried to alter it to make the example clearer 😞

@dpsutton ^- here you go

ok thanks

i've got to go cook some dinner but i think this is your function you want to look at:

i believe that it's the note var

OK, I’ll take a look. Thanks for the pointer!

@bbrinck can you give me a repo that has a minimum reproduction? or perhaps instructions on how to create it? I haven't delved into spec yet because it's alpha

i think it's actually cider-stacktrace-emit-indented at issue here. i'm just not sure why the message isn't multiline, but some parts of it are

can you debug a test with cider?

yeah i can

instrument the function you want to test and then C-c C-t t to run a test at point and it should work

oh, but i can't use #dbg or #break?

i imagine you can

i never use those. i just hit C-u C-M-x to instrument

did you try it?

yes, it works with C-u C-M-x, thanks! it just doesn't work with the #dbg and #break forms, i wish i could use them to get to what i want to debug faster, but oh well!

huh. weird. feel free to open a ticket

when you put #dbg, did you re-eval the function?

try re-evaling it

i'm able to debug a test with the #dbg form

oh, you have to re-eval it? i thought C-c C-x was enough

oh, it works! sweet, thanks!

awesome. malabarba and vspinu have done amazing work with the debugger

yes it's probably one of the best debuggers i've ever used

i really love the trace functionality