Hi, when I do C-u C-x C-e the result is put into the buffer next to what I just evaluated. If I do C-x C-e the result is in the mini-buffer and will disappear from the buffer on the next action. Is there a key combo to insert the result into the buffer after doing C-x C-e?

wow, don't have the answer but thanks for sharing this C-u C-x C-e trick

M-x eval-print-last-sexp

@dpsutton using that lands me in a debugger backtrace buffer

are you evaluating clojure or emacs lisp code

it works for (+ 3 4) but not for (or (println "evalling") :xyz)

ah

because the former is valid elisp

its an elisp evaluation

i saw emacs channel i thought you wanted to eval emacs lisp

my bad

Ah yes, I meant for clojure code. Although if there is a common way to refer to the last output in the minibuffer then that might work for both

cider-eval-last-sexp-to-repl (C-c M-e)

does that meet your needs?

cider-eval-defun-to-comment C-c M-;

looks handy as well

those are helpful, but both seem to do the evaluation again. My use case is more for "crap, I lost the output of that long running operation"

oh i think i misunderstood your original intent

what are you looking to do?

Oh I see that the results are also in the Messages buffer, that is helpful too

Well sometimes I do C-x C-e when I wanted to do C-u C-x C-e, so I want to be able to have the output somewhere after running something

so you want to save the output of code?

maybe bind the print to repl one to a convenient shortcut?

and always stick it out to the repl?

For me it works to use C-u C-x C-e and if I do C-x C-e instead I now know that I can lookup and paste the result from the Messages buffer. That works for me

I use this when adding a (comment ..) section in a clojure file and trying out some things in there to see how code works.

can someone answer a really stupid question for me please? 🙂 is there a standard elisp package / lib providing the function “first” that I ought to know about? I know I can just use “car” or define my own. but a couple of packages I have seem almost to expect that it be there. tia

something like dash.el but which contains things like first, last, butlast, etc

/usr/local/share/emacs/26.0.50/lisp/emacs-lisp/cl.elc (defalias first) /usr/local/share/emacs/26.0.50/lisp/emacs-lisp/cl-lib.el (defun cl-first)

looks like the cl and cl-lib are what you're looking for

not sure how to ensure they are imported

@dpsutton thanks so much!

no prob

i didn’t really know how to formulate the question for google “elisp first function” gets misinterpreted

haha yeah

luckily i had that package in my environment, so i just went to its definition

and it had those two options

the alias and defun

pretty sure now that you mention it that i’ve seen (require ‘cl) before

there's weird stuff like require on compile

and some other weird stuff

and the emacs crew don't like cl, even though everyone uses it

i'm not really sure

man, really thanks, lol. this was really irritating me 🙂

you’ve contributed to the net happiness in the universe

well, i didn't hold the door open for someone coming into the coffee shop so this just makes the universe net even again

well, you have restored balance to the force

@dpsutton don’t suppose you have function* ?

i’m trying to run 4clojure mode and getting errors for a bunch of missing defs

?

function* ?

cl-macs

weird

they should bring in their own dependencies

cl-macs.el is the file you are looking for it seems

thanks again. yeah, 4clojure mode depends explicitly on json and request but apparently assumes cl and cl-macs

i may file an issue after i ascertain that i’m not the bozo

ah there’s a PR https://github.com/losingkeys/4clojure.el/pull/8/commits/63f40a39932fd31cc82a713d6546b71569ffdd88

nice