Practicalli Project Update 5
A range of updates, new content and tool reviews and testing. Helping lots of students on Exercism in the last week.
Practicalli Study Groupλ︎
Getting back to some important basics of Clojure, walking through several Exercism.io coding challenges (to support mentoring efforts there).
- 089 - Code challenges - Regular Expressions to solve Bob challenge on Exercism.io
- 088 - Code challenges - Encoding and decoding
- 087 - Clojure CLI tools - Practicalli Clojure deps.edn configuration and a tour of community tools
Practicalli Clojureλ︎
Reviewed the Introduction and Getting Started sections, improving the flow and providing a solid introduction to Clojure.
New sections * Using Clojure CLI tools - common tasks - with accompanying broadcast * Code Analysis - install and configuring clj-kondo * Neovim and Conjure install and Conjure user guide](https://practical.li/clojure/clojure-editors/) - Update: moved to Practicalli Neovim
Updated Clojure CLI tools version used with CircleCI and updating scripts to use -M flag with aliases.
Evaluated Spacevim to see if it should be added to the recommended Clojure aware editors. An issue was found running the Clojure CLI tools REPL on Linux, along with a quick fix. Although the configuration of vim packages is excellent and a very impressive overall experience. the Clojure environment is very basic and would welcome modernizing. Ideally adding Conjure to SpaceVim would produce an excellent development experience.
Practicalli clojure-cli-configλ︎
Updates and fixes to the user level configuration for Clojure CLI projects
- Add
:middleware/cider-cljand:middleware/cider-clj-refactoraliases to allow connections to a running REPL from Cider (and should also work for Calva). - practicalli/live middleware/clojure-clj-refactor: add documentation
- Clojure CLI config precedence - added graphic
- Added Common development tasks
- kaocha test runner: fix for 1.0.700 release
- Update group-id of
deps-deploy(#3)
Practicalli Spacemacsλ︎
New content: * Running specific test groups with test selectors
Updated content: * Line numbers - visual, relative and absolute styles * Repeating searches and scrolling through search pattern history
Cider issueλ︎
Investigated bug with Emacs Cider and the new Clojure CLI tools -M alias flag. Cider modeled Clojure CLI tools support on the approach for Leinigen and this resulted in the -A alias flag occurring out of position. The clojure command does work this way, only since the -M flag has been introduced that the issue became visible. The fix organises the arguments in the correct position
* Issue: Clojure CLI command parameters order incorrect
* PR: jack-in: move Clojure-cli parameter global-opts after -Sdeps
Hacking on CIDER live broadcast to evolve the way cider-jack-in manages aliases. Covers basic elisp print line style debugging and how to hack on the live Cider code running in Emacs.
Clojure CLI support for other toolsλ︎
Reviewed Clojure CLI support for other Clojure aware editors recommended and raised issues and fixes.
Calva issueλ︎
Calva only seems to allow the use of -A flag when using its jack-in feature, so issue #826 raised for awareness of the change in Clojure CLI tools.
Spacevim issueλ︎
Spacevim fails to run the REPL using Command Line tools on Unix systems, picking up the wrong executable name. Suggested a quick hack to fix the issue to help the community create a suitable fix in vimscript.
Thank you.
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