Is there a way with clj-refactor to prevent the clean-ns function from running when moving a form to another namespace? Or more concretely is there way to prevent it from deleting unused exports in a namespace? I am using potemkin/import-vars in one ns, so the unused requires aren't really unused.

we have a trick for this at work. in the require you have [some-ns :as alias] and in the code do (comment alias/keep-me)

@diego.vid.eco I recommend removing it from the ns form and using (require ...) right below it. ns is only sugar over require/`load` so there's no difference. There's a good chance other tools will also understand this pattern (clj-kondo does!)

thanks @vemv!

clj-kondo (and clojure-lsp) won't warn/touch unused requires when they have 1) no alias and 2) no refers

if they don't have 1 and 2 then it is assumed the namespace was required for side effects

yeah that's a difference relative to refactor-nrepl, which doesn't infer things from ns libspecs In a way I like require , it seems very explicit/unmistakable

works for JVM, not for CLJS

but then again, so doesn't potemkin

The top level requires might make some reloading code not function correctly. Both tools namespace and possibly require :reload-all

Btw, an idiomatic solution for clj-refactor is setting https://github.com/clojure-emacs/clj-refactor.el/blob/363b95c5d2855abc93ac011e9adc778cf7a773e5/clj-refactor.el#L265-L273 in your dir-locals