REPL really is such a misused concept in the clojure world

and tools.nrepl is totally mislabeled, it should be tools.remote or so 😉

@cgrand just noticed that fipp is doing something similar to the custom formatters https://github.com/brandonbloom/fipp/blob/master/doc/primitives.md

@thheller I drew inspiration from fipp but this part of it (or custom formatters) is too much layout focused (hey it’s a pretty printer) while I’m concerned about “machine” printing. Layout is a concern for the client.

yeah its too focused on clojure as well

but I was looking for prior art for describing objects and it seems fairly common to create some kind of limited markup

but as you said its not about pretty printing

@dominicm all tooling is not repl indeed. However it doesn’t imply that you can’t devise an adhoc protocol by subsetting unrepl

@cgrand you made that comment before, it only now makes sense. It might be interesting to see if a shared protocol can come out of subsets.

@dominicm it’s the old age that makes me to ramble

It's good, for me. Helps me learn. Hopefully it doesn't waste too much of your time with my bombardment of questions!

not at all

IMO many of these questions are not at all clear yet, so any discussion is useful.

(this is the output of (repeat (range)))

(or rather the rendering of the represetation of the value of (repeat (range)))

rendered where? as html? can you click the ...?

as html in an electron unrepl client (it has been years since I’ve done frontend)

not yet clickable (I haven’t set up the second socket)

I’m cheating on the rendering:

ol, ul, dl {display: inline-block; margin: 0; padding: 0;}
li, dt, dd {display: inline; margin 0; padding: 0;}
dd + dt::before {content:", "}
li + li::before {content:" "}

.list::before {content: "("}
.list::after {content: ")"}
.vector::before {content: "["}
.vector::after {content: "]"}
.set::before {content: "#{"}
.set::after {content: "}"}

the browser takes care of the parens, spacing and commas

neato

nice!

I'm still figuring out a nice terminal UI for elisions

it could print elisions as #unrepl/... 1, #unrepl/... 2 etc

then a special command like expand 1 could be used to expand successively

$ try --debug
Unravel 0.1.4 connected to localhost:50505

Type ^O for docs of symbol under cursor, ^D to quit
[:receive [:unrepl/hello {:session :session559, :actions {:exit (unrepl.repl/exit! :session559)}}]]
[:receive [:prompt {}]]
>

@cgrand, :prompt doesn't pass the current *ns* anymore. Is that an oversight?

If so I'll do a PR

@pesterhazy I added it back one or two days ago

sweet

@pesterhazy #unrepl/... 1, #unrepl/... 2 are a bit long for display to the user. &1, &2 ?

Good idea

I can use a different color too

Is unravel already exposing a completion function, a source function, a doc function (for the last two, I guess I can just evaluate forms directly maybe?). I am thinking of adding it to inf-clojure

hmm... I think it may make more sense to use the unrepl code directly from emacs

unravel is intended to be used interactively, mostly

well, I have already added the concept of repl types in inf-clojure, and lumo and planck now are supported

so I think doc and complete should be added to unrepl proper

eventually I mean

lumo and planck have dumb modes (`-d`) so I'll have to add that to unravel

yeah I think the same, actually let me link what inf-clojure does now

yep that is useful

so here for instance https://github.com/clojure-emacs/inf-clojure/blob/master/inf-clojure.el#L255

we just send a string for evaluation to the process

different for any repl

I see

well eventually I think that code should be added to unrepl

the supported commands that you can do from emacs are a bit above: https://github.com/clojure-emacs/inf-clojure/blob/master/inf-clojure.el#L103

so we have a single codebase that handles tooling functionality

they are the classic doc, source, macroexpand....

that's useful

I like this new trend of minimal setup

I wish I could contribute more but now I am super busy, hopefully soon things will improve on my side

lots of things are still in flux with unrepl, but tons of opportunities at the moment

I think it's important to get a lot of input from tooling authors to get things right this time

(after learning from experiences with nREPL)

it could really be a big plus for clojure compared to other languages

to have a good tooling story

yeah I agree

the above ellipsis on long output is wonderful btw

my idea with unravel is to showcase the capabilities that unrepl unlocks, to get other tooling authors on board 🙂

that's awesome, keep it up and you'll be rewarded 😄

you are already exposing a complete function actually (https://github.com/pesterhazy/unravel/blob/master/src/unravel/core.cljs#L202)

yeah feel free to use that if it helps

it's triggered by tab

yes that's perfect, also very nice that you have an explicit cmd-doc, I can just call that passing the symbol that I get from emacs

and probably the send! function can actually be used for everything else

that's on the cljs side btw, so you can't call it by just sending text to stdin

now I'm thinking it'd be great to have the arglist printed out automatically as you're typing a symbol...

yeah I added get-arglists in lumo for that

New release 0.1.6 adds expansion of lazy seqs!

☝️ cool stuff!