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hi, im trying to try out reveal but I'm having trouble getting it setup in IntelliJ with Cursive, does someone have time to help me please? I think my issue is I'm totally new to deps.edn (I normally use lein)

hi @qmstuart, I use reveal in Cursive, and there is a section about Cursive in Reveal readme — https://vlaaad.github.io/reveal/#cursive

thats the guide im following 🙂

what problem do you have with it?

it should work with lein as well...

I think I'm missing something really obvious. SO I created a new app with clj -A:new app exfn/foo then I opened the resulting deps.edn as a project. I click to add a REPL and fill in this in the REPL screen:

I feel I'm being really thick and missing something obvious 😄

I run that REPL, and it works fine as a repl. But I expected the REVEAL window to open when I ran it?

What have I misunderstood?

do I need to do something to launch REVEAL seperately? Or Maybe I need to edit my ~/.clojure/deps.edn ?

sorry if im beign dumb,not only am I new to reveal, I'm pretty new to CLojure too

do you have reveal dependency in ~/.clojure/deps.edn ?

my ~/.clojure/deps.ednlooks like this:

{:aliases {:reveal {:extra-deps {vlaaad/reveal {:mvn/version "1.0.130"}}
                    :ns-default vlaaad.reveal
                    :exec-fn repl}}}

I also check "Run with Deps" and specify reveal alias

and I also have this in Parameters:

-m vlaaad.reveal repl

my .clojure/deps.edn has loads in it!

{:mvn/repos {"sonatype" {:url ""}}
 :aliases
 {;; pull in specific versions of Clojure:
  :1.0 {:override-deps {org.clojure/clojure {:mvn/version "1.0.0"}}}
  :1.1 {:override-deps {org.clojure/clojure {:mvn/version "1.1.0"}}}
  :1.2 {:override-deps {org.clojure/clojure {:mvn/version "1.2.1"}}}

the point is, you need to have reveal on the classpath 🙂

can i put the bit starting {:reveal } anywhere under :aliases ?

hmm, I forgot to add Parameters section with -m vlaaad.reveal repl because I used that in main-opts in an alias while writing readme

I'll add that step

Now its saying can't find Could not locate vlaaad/reveal__init.class, vlaaad/reveal.clj or vlaaad/reveal.cljc on classpath. BUt I added that reveal alias to my deps.edn

I should add it to my projects deps.edn too?

@qmstuart It looks like you did not specify the :reveal alias in the command to start your REPL from Cursive.

(I'm not a Cursive user -- I find it much easier to start a REPL manually from the command-line and then connect my editor to that... I find Cursive's whole "run configuration" thing to be counter-intuitive!)

yes, its confuses me no end

What does it want under aliases? for Runs with Deps? reveal ? :reveal ? remote-repl ?

it seems if i change anything in my deps.edn and make a mistake then the whole project is ruined as even if I undo it all. IdeaJ still squigglies every single clojure function and wont even run a basic repl

I assume you were already using IntelliJ which is why you went with Cursive to learn Clojure?

yeah

I'm creating a new project and deleting and recreating when it messes up as IntelliJ starts to refuse to open it as a project

this is so frustrating

Colin, Cursive's creator, is pretty active in the #cursive channel so that's a good place to get help, if you're not already in there asking about run configurations etc.

I don't like IDEs myself. I used Eclipse for a long time (and mostly hated it). I've tried IntelliJ numerous times and I just think it's awful 😞

But then I haven't had to deal with Java for a very long time now 🙂

what would you suggest is better?

i can't get along with emacs

I love Cursive, having autocomplete and static analysis with dynamic REPL is the best combo

and interop with java is a breeze

I got it work!

😄

wonderful!

what helped?

thank you and sean for your help

I was really misunderstanding deps.edn i think

what I like about IntelliJ is the built in documenation, i can hover over a function and get the help pages for it

and that I get ultimate as part of my jetbrains package

Any ideas why stuff that is in a dependency library isnt working for me? e.g. I can't evaluate anything from clojure.data.csv

(ns exfn.bar (:gen-class) (:require [clojure.data.csv :as csv]))
Execution error (FileNotFoundException) at exfn.bar/eval7803$loading (bar.clj:1).
Could not locate clojure/data/csv__init.class, clojure/data/csv.clj or clojure/data/csv.cljc on classpath.

(require '[clojure.data.csv :as casv])

oh, i see, I had to restart it after changing my deps.edn!

reveal is very cool dude 🙂 Great job!

doing work where I need to analyse and smooth a series of data, being able to visualise it in a chart straight from the repl is mind blowing

Glad you got it all working @qmstuart!