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Chase 2025-11-17T23:12:40.436409Z

Has anyone figured out a good workflow for cljfmt's new abilities to align maps and let forms, etc.?

:aligned-forms - a map of symbols to indexes that tell cljfmt where to expect forms it should align. For example, {'let #{0}} indicates that the first argument of let (the binding vector) should be aligned. This option will replace the default aligned forms. Used by :align-form-columns?. Experimental.

:align-form-columns? - true if cljfmt should align the symbols and values within certain forms (such as let) so that they line up in columns. The forms are defined via the :aligned-forms and :extra-aligned-forms options. Defaults to false. Experimental.

:align-map-columns? - true if cljfmt should align the keys and values of maps such that they line up in columns. Defaults to false. Experimental.

:extra-aligned-forms - the same as :aligned-forms, except that this will append to the default aligned forms. Experimental.

I know a lot of vimmers have been wanting these capabilities for a long time. Emacs and intellij have had the ability to do so and I think it can be on the s expression level or the whole file, etc. so I would like to build out some keybindings to do the same.

juhoteperi 2025-11-18T11:18:33.067079Z

https://github.com/clojure-lsp/clojure-lsp/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#unreleased cljfmt bump still unreleased

Chase 2025-11-17T23:52:31.585689Z

My current attempt is like so: At the root of my practice repo I have: .lsp/config.edn

{:cljfmt-config-path ".cljfmt.edn"}

.cljfmt.edn

{:indentation? true
 :remove-surrounding-whitespace? true
 :remove-trailing-whitespace? true
 :insert-missing-whitespace? true
 :remove-consecutive-blank-lines? false

 :align-map-columns? true
 :align-form-columns? true}

and then in my init.lua

-- in lsp settings
  if lsp == "clojure_lsp" then
    opts.root_dir = util.root_pattern(".git")
    opts.settings = {
      ["clojure-lsp"] = {
        format = { enabled = true },
        ["cljfmt-config-path"] = ".cljfmt.edn"
      }
    }

-- in keybindings
      { 'n', 'f',   function() vim.lsp.buf.format({ async = false }) end },  -- Format buffer with cljfmt
      { 'v', 'f',   function() vim.lsp.buf.format({ async = false }) end },  -- Format selection

Chase 2025-11-17T23:57:44.748069Z

It seems to work for all kinds of formatting except for the new align hashmaps and such. But when I run cljfmt fix from the command line it does align my hashmaps, etc. and I can see the setting is getting picked up properly:

λ ~ : cljfmt 
Usage:
	cljfmt (check | fix) [PATHS...]
Config:
	/home/chaselambert/projects/clojure/practice/.cljfmt.edn
Options:
  -h, --help
      --version
  -q, --quiet
  -v, --verbose
      --[no-]align-form-columns                    true
      --[no-]align-map-columns                     true
      --[no-]ansi                                  true
      --config CONFIG_FILE
      --file-pattern FILE_PATTERN                  \.clj[csx]?$
      --function-arguments-indentation STYLE       community     STYLE may be community, cursive, or zprint
      --[no-]indentation                           true
      --[no-]indent-line-comments                  false
      --[no-]insert-missing-whitespace             true
      --[no-]parallel                              false
      --project-root PROJECT_ROOT                  .
      --[no-]remove-consecutive-blank-lines        false
      --[no-]remove-multiple-non-indenting-spaces  false
      --[no-]remove-surrounding-whitespace         true
      --[no-]remove-trailing-whitespace            true
      --[no-]sort-ns-references                    false
      --[no-]split-keypairs-over-multiple-lines    false

Chase 2025-11-17T23:59:30.765109Z

I'm wondering if clojure-lsp has an earlier version of cljfmt bundled and is using that one versus my system installed version (which is 0.15.5 )

Chase 2025-11-18T00:26:01.764159Z

While I sort that out I just have a bb.edn file (at project root level) with this:

{:tasks
 {fmt
  {:extra-deps {dev.weavejester/cljfmt {:mvn/version "0.15.5"}}
   :task (shell "cljfmt fix")}}}

and that gets the job done with bb fmt for now

dominicm 2025-11-18T07:23:56.919049Z

Probably just need to either try nightly or open a pr.

dominicm 2025-11-18T07:24:06.074659Z

It does bundle cljfmt afaik

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