Right

One further question: Cursive also shows aliases that the user can select in a tool window, which allows the user to decide which source paths etc should be synced to their project. I assume it doesn’t make sense to show these aliases there, i.e. it only makes sense to show those aliases whose value is a map.

https://cursive-ide.com/userguide/deps.html#working-with-aliases

Seems right

In the latter question, aliases should be resolved from the merged edn map, same as paths. But maybe I’m not getting some nuance of your question

Yep, that was what I had assumed.

So using this map:

{:paths ["src" :clj-paths :resource-paths]
 :aliases {:clj-paths ["src2"]
           :resource-paths ["resources"]
           :moar {:extra-paths ["src3" :moar-paths]}
           :moar-paths ["src4"]}}

src, src2 and resources will always be selected. src3 and src4 will be selected if the user has chosen to use the moar alias.

@U064X3EF3 It feels like this is part of a bigger picture that we don't have all the pieces of -- since the alias references in ;paths etc is all static at the moment, so you can't actually override any of it yet?

@cfleming right

@seancorfield not sure what you mean about overriding

This is about giving names to sunsets of paths

Subsets

One important place these names show up is in the classpath data in the basis

By "override" I meant that project aliases override user-level, and you can further override those on the command-line -- so I was thinking that you could provide a new :clj-paths alias on the command-line to "override" a :clj-paths alias in the project deps.edn.

Like I say, I'm still not seeing much benefit in that feature yet, so I assume there's a "bigger picture" and it will make more sense "soon" 🙂

you could do all that but I do not have any use case in mind where that would be a good idea

better to manipulate with a -C alias modifying :extra-paths or overrides

Aye, and that's what I would tend to do -- so, again, I'm not seeing much benefit in being able to specify parts of paths etc as aliases right now.

then you should not do it :)

Based on all the comments I guess it stands for “something” 😁

Setting

Riiight

but "something" or "stuff" is pretty good too :)

🙂

Btw, I have wondered how you prevent :) turning into an emoticon. Is that a setting?

Nm, I found it :)