I'm trying this: (setq cider-repl-shortcut-dispatch-char ?\?), but it doesn't seem to work, , is still the shortcut

Hum, maybe that doesn't do what I think it does, now comma types a question mark

@didibus You might have to set this before requiring CIDER, as it gets bound in the keymap of cider-repl-mode.

I read the (awesome) docs @ https://docs.cider.mx/cider/config/project_config.html

and a question or 2 perhaps sprung into my mind that I cannot find answers to.

I notice the mode selected is clojurescript-mode - and it discusses using clojure-mode too.

How do we know decide what major mode the var needs set in?

For instance, the example given includes cider-clojure-cli-global-options

which is used during something like a cider-jack-in-*

and the buffer you have open can be anything within the project, so not necessarily are you “in” clj/cljs major modes already when you do that action

if I had to “guess the mode” I would have guessed cider-repl or something

so how do you know which mode is relevant for commands you run like this

an as an update to above question, I wanted to set cider-figwheel-main-default-options and tried these 3 in this order - closing and opening a project.clj (has clojure-mode active) buffer each time (the buffer I initiated cider-jack-in-clj&cljs from (since dir-locals are reloaded when buffer opens docs say):

((clojurescript-mode . ((cider-figwheel-main-default-options . "dev")))) ;; <- prompt asked me for build still
((clojure-mode . ((cider-figwheel-main-default-options . "dev")))) ;; <- prompt asked me for build still

((nil . ((cider-figwheel-main-default-options . "dev")))) ;; <- no more prompt - var setting was used

clojurescript-mode is derived from clojure-mode, so anything you set for clojure-mode will get applied in clojurescript-mode as well.

You can always find the major mode of some buffer by pressing C-h m there.

As for the other part of your question - the syntax you’ve used is incorrect.

((major-mode
  (some-var . "foo-bar"))

I’m puzzled how this worked at all.

@bozhidar woah! didn’t realize syntax was wrong - will have to try all over again - but yeah, weird the nil case worked if that’s why it wasn’t working

but you are saying what you do with the M-x command here has it’s mode just depend on the file you are in?

so clojure-mode is more universal than clojurescript-mode for a clj/cljs project (covers more files). but if I try to jack-in from some, say html file buffer - the mode would still be wrong

even though I think jack-in supports being called upon from any buffer from a file in the project dir

hi again @dpsutton, M-x cider-version returns CIDER 0.21.0 (New York)

can you upgrade your cider version?

ok yeah will try to move to 0.23.0

It was indeed all that was needed. Thank you for your guidance. I am mildy embarrassed that it was that easy a fix... but I did try to look at reported issues before asking, albeit not closed ones 🙂 Thanks!

no embarrassment ever!

happy to help 🙂

You did! Many thanks!