anyone has the * search working well while editing clojure files ? when I do * on a namespace name from the require list (aliased or not, let's pretend async), I'm always expecting my search to find every use of the name in the file, but I always get caught by the fact that it doesn't match things like async/go

how do you guys do ?

when looking for symbols, I usually search for async\/

I end up doing that as well but... you know... 😕

like when you're cleaning up a bit your requires, you'd like to know if a namespace is used at all, a * won't do it for me which makes me sad

yeah, it's a bit annoying

ah, I started using clj-kondo via the ALE plugin and that helps me clean up my unused namespaces

oh yes, that could be a good workaround for me as well, thanks I'll give it a go

still I'll be happy to find a solution for the star search one day

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clojure-lsp also provides warnings about unused namespaces. both solid options

@tedefump If you'd like to see where core.async is being used in your code base, you can use analysis output: https://github.com/borkdude/clj-kondo/tree/master/analysis There are some tools based on this for visualizing namespace/var dependencies: https://github.com/SevereOverfl0w/vizns https://github.com/benedekfazekas/morpheus

Another tool is https://github.com/borkdude/carve for discovering unused vars

Additionally vim-iced, a vim plugin also can use clj-kondo for discovering dependencies: https://twitter.com/uochan/status/1304916698827382784

there's no shortage of analysis tools 😄

thanks!

my issue is more with editing/navigating, I navigate a lot by * in vim

but all these tools are still very useful, thanks for the tips

oh sorry, I might have misunderstood your issue then 😊

it's fine, I gave the example on unsused namespace but that wasn't the best example tbh

I think I'll still install clj-kondo

@tedefump Here are some docs: https://github.com/borkdude/clj-kondo/blob/master/doc/editor-integration.md#vim--neovim

perfect, thanks a lot

Fyi, fireplace has fixed the error problem that's been on master for a while. Also :Stacktrace has been massively improved.

@tedefump just brainstorming for a moment: what about a key that took the last symbol searched for via * / # but then searched for only the part before the / if any?

or expanded the search to include things that start with <sym>/if you were originally searching for <sym>

@tedefump @noisesmith doesn’t star respect word boundaries? http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/options.html#'iskeyword'

I meant to figure that out to exclude colon and slash

in a clojure mode, / should not be a word boundary

commands built on "w" etc would be annoying otherwise

but the intentional split on "/" in particular seems useful as an additional feature

I wouldn’t mind making / a word boundary. But in any case you could write a command that temporarily changes the iskeyword setting when you press star. I’ll try that tomorrow.

if I am on foo/bar, the intuitive thing is to search for foo/bar when using * and that's what the default clojure language def does. but yeah a prefix or modification does sound cool.