CIDER 1.8 ("Geneva")

New features

• #3364: Update enrich-classpath, adding Clojure CLI compatibility, and reworking its integration into CIDER.
• #3472: render Java doc comments and arglists with an improved format, and improve Java interop type inference.
  • Requires enrich-classpath to be enabled (see previous bullet point).
  • A related option has been introduced: cider-docstring-max-lines.
• #3352: Add CIDER Log Mode, a major mode that allows you to capture, debug, inspect and view log events emitted by Java logging frameworks.
• #3418: Introduce cider-clojure-compilation-error-phases (doc).
  • This prevents stacktraces from showing up whenever the :clojure.error/phase indicates that it's a compilation error.
• Infer indentation specs when possible (doc).
• #2958, #3279: cider-test-run-test: support arbitrary deftest-like forms, defns with :test metadata, and search for a -test counterpart for a given defn (following cider-test-infer-test-ns logic).
  • This also makes obsolete the cider-test-defining-forms customization variable.
• cider-test: add timing information.
• cider-test: fail-fast by default, as controlled by the new cider-test-fail-fast defcustom and cider-test-toggle-fail-fast keybinding.
• #3352: Introduce cider-eval-dwim.
• Add new customization variable cider-clojurec-eval-destination to allow specifying which REPL .cljc evals are sent to.
• #3354: Add new customization variable cider-reuse-dead-repls to control how dead REPL buffers are reused on new connections.

Bugs fixed

• #3341: Escape clojure-cli args on MS-Windows on non powershell invocations.
• #3353: Fix regression which caused new connections to prompt for reusing dead REPLs.
• #3355: Fix cider-mode disabling itself after a disconnect when cider-auto-mode is set to nil.
• #3362: Fix sesman-restart regression issue.
• #3236: cider-repl-set-ns no longer changes the repl session type from cljs:shadow to clj.
• #3383: cider-connect-clj&cljs: don't render "ClojureScript REPL type:" for JVM repls.
• #3331: cider-eval: never jump to spurious locations, as sometimes conveyed by nREPL.
• #3112: Fix the CIDER xref-find-references backend to return correct filenames.
• #3393: recompute namespace info on each shadow-cljs recompilation or evaluation.
• #3402: Fix cider-format-connection-params edge case for Emacs 29.
• Recompute namespace info on each fighweel-main recompilation.
• #3250: Don't lose the CIDER session over TRAMP files.
• #3413: Make jump-to-definition work in projects needing cider-path-translations (i.e. Dockerized projects).
• #2436: Prevent malformed cider-repl-history-files from failing cider-jack-in.
• #3456: Restore xref-based jump-to-definition in Babashka (and any nREPL clients not having cider-nrepl).
• #3466: Restore usual cider--connected-handler performance for JVM Clojure repls.
• #3503: Make cider-repl-set-ns more reliable on Piggieback connections.
• Fix the xref-find-definitions CIDER backend to return correct filenames.
• Fix the cider-xref-fn-deps buttons to direct to the right file.
• Fix the cider-find-keyword overall reliability and correctness, particularly for ClojureScript.
• Make TRAMP functionality work when using non-standard ports.
• Fix the cider-insert-commands-map variable initialization.

Changes

• Ensure that cider completion isn't used with completion styles that are currently unsupported (initials, partial-completion, orderless, etc).
  • This restores completions for users that favor those styles - otherwise the would see bad or no completions.
  • Relatedly, cider-company-enable-fuzzy-completion is now deprecated in favor of cider-enable-flex-completion.
• Improve support for multiple forms in the same line by replacing beginning-of-defun fn.
• #3390: Enhance cider-connect to show all nREPLs available ports, instead of only Leiningen ones.
• #3408: cider-connect: check .nrepl-port-like files for liveness, hiding them if they don't reflect an active port.
• Introduce cider-stacktrace-navigate-to-other-window defcustom.
• Preserve the :cljs-repl-type more reliably.
• Improve the presentation of xref data.
• #3419: Also match friendly sessions based on the buffer's ns form.
• Always match friendly sessions for cider-ancillary-buffers (like *cider-error*, *cider-result*, etc).
• cider-test: only show diffs for collections.
• cider-inspector-def-current-val now can suggest a var name (default none), which can be customized via cider-inspector-preferred-var-names.
• The "Member in class: " prompt can now be optionally skipped in ido-mode by pressing <up> or <down> (doc).
• #3375: cider-test: don't render a newline between expected and actual, most times.
• Interactive evaluation: show a shorter overlay when rendering compilation errors.
  • e.g., the Syntax error compiling clojure.core/let at (foo/bar.clj:10:1) prefix is now removed.
• Ensure there's a leading : when using cider-clojure-cli-aliases.
• Improve nrepl-dict error reporting.
• Bump the injected piggieback to 0.5.3.
• Bump the clojure-mode required version to 5.17.1, and use clojure-find-ns more safely, which fixes issues such as #2849.
• Bump the parseedn require version, and wrap its usage with a more informative user-error.
• Bump the injected cider-nrepl to 0.39.1.
  • Improves indentation, font-locking and other metadata support for ClojureScript.
  • Updates Orchard
    • introduces support for displaying the docstring and arglists of 'indirect' vars (e.g. (def foo bar)) for Clojure/Script.
    • fixes xref support across deftest vars.
  • Updates Compliment
    • Improves type hint propagation.
    • Supports better completions for doto, ->, ->>, some->, and some->>.
    • Supports better completions for var-quote (#'some/var).
    • Supports better completions for deftype field names.
  • Updates Haystack.
    • Now, in *cider-error*, more internal stackframes will be hidden under the tooling category.
  • Updates Suitable
    • avoiding side-effecting -> evaluation for pure-ClojureScript chains.