Clojurians Log v2

Also this addition to the first line:

user=> (prn 0) (prn
  #_=> 1) (prn
0
nil
  #_=> 2) (prn
1
nil
  #_=> 3)
2
nil
3
nil
user=> 

It seems in this kind of interaction (multi-line mode), the client evals all but the last complete form?

I'm trying to match behavior in the Lingy repl client.

Clojurists don't write code in REPL itself, they send forms from their editors 🙂

@serioga that seems orthogonal. Are you trying to say that this isn't worth mentioning?

From my pov lein repl probably accounts for most people's first interactions with Clojure. It's unlikely that people care much about this level of corner cases, but having things work nicely in a first-experience environment is good for keeping people interested. I don't think this is anything that needs a lot of attention, but thought it was an oddity worth bringing up. 🙂

imho when someone starts learning Clojure in such a REPL they can get bad experience because of lack of ergonomics. Then they can decide that repl-driven development is overrated and avoid using REPL what is big mistake...

Fair. But this is #leiningen and seems like the right place to talk about lein repl issues.

To your point, perhaps lein repl startup should print a url to documentation that explains how to take advantage of better nREPL clients.

I can try forwarding this feedback to technomancy (primary maintainer of leiningen) real quick

Cheers 🙂

@ingy Not sure if relevant, but the repl from the cljhttps://clojure.org/guides/install_clojure seems to get this right

clj
Clojure 1.11.1
user=> (prn
1) (prn
1
nil
2) (prn
2
nil
3) (prn
3
nil
4)
4
nil

@jeroenvandijk I finally got a clj installed and it does seen to evaluate as expected. But for some reason (I'm pretty sure due to rlwrap) it is echoing every input line I enter

$ clj
Clojure 1.10.2
user=> (prn
(prn
1) (prn
1) (prn
1
nil
2) (prn
2) (prn
2
nil
3)
3)
3
nil
user=> 

$ clj
Clojure 1.10.2
user=> (+ 1 2)
(+ 1 2)
3
user=> 

$ clojure
Clojure 1.10.2
user=> (+ 1 2) 
3
user=> 

$ clojure
Clojure 1.10.2
user=> (prn
1) (prn
1
nil
2)
2
nil
user=> 

$ rlwrap --version
rlwrap 0.43

@hifumi123 anything from technomancy?

Ah yeah, I have some logs from IRC

Some people recommended setting up “rebel readline” for a better terminal experience. It offers autocomplete and some other amenities AFAICT https://github.com/bhauman/rebel-readline#leiningen

<technomancy> I'd say probably it'd be appropriate for the docs to point you in the direction of a more integrated repl client, but not the message that shows every time you start the repl
<technomancy> because using a more integrated repl client *does* involve running `lein repl` so even if you followed its instructions it would still be telling you to do things differently which is weird

@hifumi123 I'm on IRC. where is this?

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