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is there an easy way to edit a file inside a dependency (jar)? With emacs, you can make a buffer editable - modify the contents and reload that file into a repl: you can basically live-edit you dependencies, which is really awesome. With IDEA, can’t make the buffer/view editable. Could copy the content somewhere else and edit there, but looking for a cleaner way for this.
not looking for any permanent changes, just ability to change what the current repl sees.
This would be awesome. I do remember seeing an idea command to make a file editable, not sure if it helps here
There isn’t, but this is something a few people have asked for. One idea I had was an action to convert a file from a jar into a scratch file, which you could then edit and send to the REPL.
that would be great. Two big benefits:
• ability to use things like #p (hashp) or tap> (with portal / reveal) from 3rd party libs
• ability to try / fix small things in libs. currently working with a lot of alpha libs (many ours), which are great, but full of gaps that would be to add/fix locally in the calling project as you find them. git-sha-deps-flow simplifies things a lot, but this would allow fixes to be instant.
possibly not so helpful here, but fwiw i have some clojure code in: https://github.com/sogaiu/alc.index-defs that extracts .clj* files from dependency jars and makes them avaiable under a .alc-id subdirectory of one's project.
FYI What I do is switch the repl to the ns of the file, copy-paste the fn to that file, adjust, eval. But ☝️ would be much more comfortable
brew install mc
mc