Specifically I'm trying to add nrepl-rebl to the middleware that is added when cider-jack-in is called

https://github.com/DaveWM/nrepl-rebl#with-depsedn

This seems promissing:

https://github.com/clojure-emacs/cider/blob/0a176d0f9182befe2f1853d7a04f3104c878ff72/cider.el#L459-L468

This is why long term logs rock:

https://clojurians-log.clojureverse.org/cider/2018-12-30

🙂

copied here for convenience in case someone finds this log:

; .dir-locals.el
((clojure-mode
  (cider-clojure-cli-global-options . "-A:dev")
  (cider-jack-in-nrepl-middlewares . ("nrebl.middleware/wrap-nrebl"
                                      "cider.nrepl/cider-middleware"))))

as it turns out, if that list is defined, it replaces the standard list of whatever version of cider is being used

which is a bit inconvenient because I need to manually add the cider middleware and other stuff like the clj-refactor middleware, which previously just worked

this is what the list looks like before overriding it:

(("refactor-nrepl.middleware/wrap-refactor" :predicate cljr--inject-middleware-p) "cider.nrepl/cider-middleware")

unfortunately I don't know how to append to that list instead of replacing it

So I'm just gonna copy-paste it on my .dir-locals.el and add the rebl-wrapper ref for now

ohhhhh it worked

((nil
  (cider-jack-in-nrepl-middlewares . ("nrepl-rebl.core/wrap-rebl"
                                      ("refactor-nrepl.middleware/wrap-refactor"
                                       :predicate cljr--inject-middleware-p)
                                      "cider.nrepl/cider-middleware"))
  (cider-clojure-cli-global-options . "-A:cider:xml:rebl")
  (cider-default-cljs-repl . figwheel-main)
  (cider-figwheel-main-default-options . ":dev")))

my final setup

now I have both REBL and clj-refactor and the cider middleware all working together yaaaay 🙂

one thing you could do is put all that in a function. (let ((.. ..)) (cider-jack-in-cljs))

interesting dpsutton. I have no idea how to do that though haha. I guess it will eventually come time for me to finally learn elisp 😛

I suspect there might be a way using add-hook-###-### since that's what clj-refactor does

https://github.com/clojure-emacs/clj-refactor.el/blob/master/clj-refactor.el#L4118-L4127

You might open a ticket about this, so we can discuss how we can improve this setup and the documentation surrounding it.

Generally it’s better to use add-to-list than to just override the middleware config - e.g. https://github.com/clojure-emacs/sayid/blob/master/src/el/sayid.el#L151

Of course, this was meant mostly for extensions to plug-in something extra. For end users it might also make sense to have an extra config that’s just gets appended to the “core” list.

thanks bozhidar! will collect my logs about this issue when I get home and put them on a cider issue.