Not right now, I have a plan to allow users to create configurable commands which will allow this.

Awesome - typical nice to have extension. I already use the custom REPL command stuff extensively and enjoy it a lot!

Not at the moment, no - currently Cursive doesn’t actually show a prompt at all. Being able to configure some kind of context information is an interesting idea, though, that might be possible.

You mean it would already be possible right now?

My immediate use-case is that I'm connected to an in-memory db while im developing an importer, but then i want to be able to switch to a persisted version, when my importer worked on new data. I would like to provide this for others as "a shell"

No, I mean that it would probably be possible without too much work. I was thinking about an expression in the REPL run config which would be evaluated behind the scenes after each REPL eval. The returned value could be shown in the overlay in the bottom right of the editor or something like that.

For now I think I can just create a REPL command, assign it to some convenient function key and that could just print my current work context... Iike how the namespace is reflected in the REPL tab, though I usually just keep it as user, so my REPLs are indistinguishable. Would be useful if I could see the Deps project root folder name too or something like that. If there would be a REPL prompt hook, we could just program anything there...

I've also experienced something funny around that overlay. Notice how the stdout got interpreted as the current namespace. That gave me the idea that I could somehow control that information programmatically 😉

That’s really weird, what sort of REPL is that? clojure.main?

It looks more like nREPL, but I don’t see how that could happen.

Yes, that's an nREPL with Run with Deps option. I haven't narrowed the phenomena down yet, but it's roughly going thru this pipeline:

(-> "x.tsv" io/resource io/reader
    clojure-csv.core/parse-csv
    semantic-csv.core/mappify
    (on-every 1e4 •)
    (d/transact conn)
    deref)

(defn on-every
  "Wrap s in a lazy sequence that will call f, presumably for side effects,
   on every nth element of s during consumption.
   
   Source: "
  [n f s]
  (let [g (cons (comp first (juxt identity f)) (repeat (dec n) identity))]
    (map #(% %2) (rest (cycle g)) s)))

but i suspect that the culprit can be that • function, because a, it's printing a non-ascii character b, it's flushing the output

(defn • [& args] (print "•") (flush))

With an nREPL REPL, those values should only be set by the server explicitly sending the current namespace back to the client, it should never come from stdout.

As I see my nrepl is a bundled one on the latest stable version:

-classpath "/Users/onetom/JetBrains/apps/IDEA-U/ch-0/201.6073.9/IntelliJ IDEA 2020.1 EAP.app.plugins/clojure-plugin/lib/nrepl-0.6.0.jar