Fairly sure it doesn't

I uninstalled clj-refactor.el for reasons and this stopped working

Well, it's not the case, you could try removing .elc files, else feel free to create an issue

ok will do, thanks

You can also use the *nrepl-log* to see whether it's a timeout, error, absence of request etc

I think something weird may be going on with .elc files as you were suggesting, now after a restart and installing clj-refactor, it's complaining about a missing clojure-mode-map variable

Doesn't ring a bell. Although it's a good idea to check that clojure-mode is latest stable

Ah, perhaps my setup was loading clj-refactor before which loaded clojure-mode before it ran:

(define-key clojure-mode-map (kbd "M-.") #'find-definition)

something like that seems to be happening. When loading clojure-mode manually, I'm getting:

Symbol's function definition is void: cider-register-cljs-repl-type

Maybe you can perform the define-key within a *-mode-hook?

Perhaps. Just adding (require 'cider) seemed to fixed this

Nice. If you start Emacs many times a day, require can be expensive

Ah I had this:

(defun my-clojure-mode-hook ()
  (clj-refactor-mode 1)
  (yas-minor-mode 1) ; for adding require/use/import statements
  ;; This choice of keybinding leaves cider-macroexpand-1 unbound
  (cljr-add-keybindings-with-prefix "C-c C-m"))

yeah I guess I should refactor my stuff to use use-package or so, never went through that trouble and accumulated years of junk in my emacs setup haha

happy new year 🍺

HNY! 🙌

Even when I use cider-jack-in from the top of the project, I see:

[nREPL] Starting server via /opt/homebrew/bin/clojure -Sdeps \{\:deps\ \{nrepl/nrepl\ \{\:mvn/version\ \"1.0.0\"\}\ cider/cider-nrepl\ \{\:mvn/version\ \"0.44.0\"\}\}\ \:aliases\ \{\:cider/nrepl\ \{\:main-opts\ \[\"-m\"\ \"nrepl.cmdline\"\ \"--middleware\"\ \"\[cider.nrepl/cider-middleware\]\"\]\}\}\} -M:cider/nrepl

((clojure-mode
  (cider-clojure-cli-aliases . ":repl:test")))

After running this:

(defun my-reload-dir-locals-for-current-buffer ()
  "reload dir locals for the current buffer"
  (interactive)
  (let ((enable-local-variables :all))
    (hack-dir-local-variables-non-file-buffer)))

somehow now it works, but sometimes it doesn't. I guess it's Monday although it's Tuesday :)

I'd suggest running M-: cider-clojure-cli-aliases and check its value CIDER does nothing special/specific with .dir-locals.el, most likely that mechanism didn't do its job for whatever reason

If changes are made to a .dir-locals.el then the current buffer must be reloaded before calling cider-jack-in command. If switching to a buffer that was already opened, that buffer will not have the .dir-locals el changes until it has been reloaded (or reopened)

yeah I know that

but somehow it's not always picked up, even when I visit the project the first time. it does work when I run that reload function above

You could advice-add cider-jack-in (and friends) such that it always runs your defun