Clojurians Log v2
clj-kondo 2025-08-25
Can I make clj-kondo ignore whitespace? I am trying to use clojure-mcp, but the whitespace changes that are introduced by the auto-linting (which seems to be clj-kondo) conflict directly with the way IntelliJ does vertical alignment of maps and comments. I have looked at the docs and can't find anything relating to whitespace, indentation, etc.
clj-kondo has always ignored whitespace, it doesn't do anything with whitespace whatsoever
Hm, strange
I wonder where that is coming from then
maybe it uses cljfmt or some other tool?
Ah! I'll go check. I have zero experience with any of these libs, since I always just relied in IntelliJ's formatting 🙂
thanks
well maybe ask in #ai-assisted-coding where the clojure-mcp talk is happening, seems to be the best place to start?
Yeah, you're right (and I did). I just took a wrong turn 🙂
linting doesn’t introduce anything. it lints existing. However, clojure-mcp often reformats lots of buffers. An easy way to fix this is with a linter, or you can compute a diff of non-whitespace changes, commit those, and then revert the remaining changes
> However, clojure-mcp often reformats lots of buffers. An easy way to fix this is with a linter ?
My kondo was reporting error: Unresolved symbol: background
and I fixed it by replacing [midje.sweet :refer :all] with [midje.sweet :refer [background]]
Is this bug known?
It's a known limitation of clj-kondo. Unless you lint midje.sweet and it has a sane way of defining background, clj-kondo can't know that that namespace contains that var
how are you using clj-kondo?
can i open a bug asking it in kondo repository and then you answer and close?
I searched midje, refer, all in kondo repo and I couldn't find this answer
I already knew about this limitation, but I didn't find a closed bug to support my knowledge.
this isn't specific to midje
> how are you using clj-kondo?
I mean, from the command line, editor, what editor, clojure-lsp, intellij?
kondo CLI directly, v2024.11.14
ok. this issue should resolve itself when you lint the dependencies with:
clj-kondo --lint "$(clojure -Spath)" --dependencies --parallel --copy-configs
I see a cyclic dependency reported (due to :require-macros) in a CLJC file for such ns declaration:
(ns foo.core.util
(:require [clojure.string :as str])
#?(:clj (:import [clojure.lang ExceptionInfo])
:cljs (:require-macros [foo.core.util])))This is not a clj-kondo linter, but something implemented by #lsp - better to report it over there