@tanzoniteblack I have this in my code

;; Workaround 
(eval-after-load 'clojure-mode
  '(unless (keymap-parent clojure-mode-map)
     (set-keymap-parent clojure-mode-map prog-mode-map)))

don't know if useful

The prog-mode bit wasn't actually my problem

kk

I've had issues in the past with rainbow-identifiers where a mode dynamically updates font faces in a way that clobbers rainbow-identifiers, and that's what I thought was happening here with clojure-mode. But...it just randomly started working again, so who knows

but thanks for the tip

just read prog-mode there and I thought of throwing it out 😄

@tanzoniteblack There were some font-locking changes in clojure-mode recently that might have interfered with rainbown-delimiters mode. We just fixed those. If you’ve been updating frequently from MELPA that might explain your issues.

I think I should stop reading all the Emacs conversation here. Often I feel like a dedicated support or something. 😄

Lol, it's appreciated! I have cider fixed to melpa stable, but I don't think clojure mode is, so that might be it