So I’m using a music creation library overtone.live. The examples tend to add it into the namespace with :use or :refer :all. It makes sense to do this since there isn’t likely to be any collisions with clojure.core and it’s the only library I tend to use in overtone projects. I already got clj-kondo to stop linting :use and :refer :all by adding :linters {:refer-all {:exclude [overtone.live]}} to my kondo config.edn. Now it gives me “Unresolved symbol” when I see why all symbols in the namespace are underlined red. What can I do about this?

@c.westrom What you can do about this is lint the overtone library while also having a .clj-kondo directory

@c.westrom See https://github.com/clj-kondo/clj-kondo#project-setup

I don’t understand. Do you mean clone overtone.live and then run clj-kondo in a separate terminal to lint it? @borkdude

@c.westrom You are not using overtone.live as a dependency in a clojure project?

I am.

project.clj?

Deps.edn, everything works fine when I require overtone.live :as ol or something like that. I just don’t want to have to write ol/ before everything.

@c.westrom ok, then try as documented in the link I gave you:

mkdir -p .clj-kondo
clj-kondo --lint $(clojure -Spath) --dependencies 

and then try again in your editor

unfortunately that did not work, I’m suspecting it might be an issue with lsp

oh, you're using LSP, you didn't mention that :)

In that case, try removing .lsp/sqlite.db and restart your editor

If that helps, let me know. If that does not help, I'll have another suggestion.

Still a sea of red.

ok, another attempt. Remove .lsp/sqlite.db and remove .clj-kondo/.cache

and then restart your editor

oh, I think I see the issue with this. overtone uses a custom macro to import its vars... https://github.com/overtone/overtone/blob/master/src/overtone/live.clj so unfortunately the combination of :use + that namespace won't work very well. you might as well disable the unresolved symbol linter in this namespace :/

overtone could have a hook for its macros right? then it would work for clj-kondo if user configure to use the hook, right?

that's correct, but the macro doesn't give very much to go by. it's basically "copy that namespace to here"