March 30, 2020
By: Kevin
A sip of cider
What is Cider
Cider: /ˈsɑɪ·dər/ an alcoholic drink made from apples
M-x cider-drink-a-sip
"Unfortunately, no one can be told what CIDER is. You have to figure this out yourself."
The Source
(defvar cider-tips
'("Press <\\[cider-connect]> to connect to a running nREPL server."
"Press <\\[cider-quit]> to quit the current connection."
"Press <\\[cider-view-manual]> to view CIDER's manual."
"Press <\\[cider-view-refcard]> to view CIDER's refcard."
"Press <\\[describe-mode]> to see a list of the keybindings available (this will work in every Emacs buffer)."
"Press <\\[cider-repl-handle-shortcut]> to quickly invoke some REPL command."
"Press <\\[cider-switch-to-last-clojure-buffer]> to switch between the REPL and a Clojure source buffer."
"Press <\\[cider-doc]> to view the documentation for something (e.g. a var, a Java method)."
"Press <\\[cider-find-resource]> to find a resource on the classpath."
"Press <\\[cider-find-var]> to jump to the source of something (e.g. a var, a Java method)."
"Press <\\[cider-selector]> to quickly select a CIDER buffer."
"Press <\\[cider-test-run-ns-tests]> to run the tests for the current namespace."
"Press <\\[cider-test-run-loaded-tests]> to run all loaded tests."
"Press <\\[cider-test-run-project-tests]> to run all tests for the current project."
"Press <\\[cider-apropos]> to look for a symbol by some search string."
"Press <\\[cider-apropos-documentation]> to look for a symbol that has some string in its docstring."
"Press <\\[cider-eval-defun-at-point]> to eval the top-level form at point."
"Press <\\[cider-eval-defun-up-to-point]> to eval the top-level form up to the point."
"Press <\\[cider-eval-sexp-up-to-point]> to eval the current form up to the point."
"Press <\\[cider-eval-sexp-at-point]> to eval the current form around the point."
"Press <\\[cider-eval-sexp-at-point-in-context]> to eval the current form around the point in a user-provided context."
"Press <\\[cider-eval-buffer]> to eval the entire source buffer."
"Press <\\[cider-scratch]> to create a Clojure scratchpad. Pretty handy for prototyping."
"Press <\\[cider-read-and-eval]> to evaluate some Clojure expression directly in the minibuffer."
"Press <\\[cider-drink-a-sip]> to get more CIDER tips."
"Press <\\[cider-browse-ns-all]> to start CIDER's namespace browser."
"Press <\\[cider-classpath]> to start CIDER's classpath browser."
"Press <\\[cider-repl-history]> to start CIDER's REPL input history browser."
"Press <\\[cider-macroexpand-1]> to expand the preceding macro."
"Press <\\[cider-inspect]> to inspect the preceding expression's result."
"Press <C-u \\[cider-inspect]> to inspect the defun at point's result."
"Press <C-u C-u \\[cider-inspect]> to read Clojure code from the minibuffer and inspect its result."
"Press <\\[cider-ns-refresh]> to reload modified and unloaded namespaces."
"You can define Clojure functions to be called before and after `cider-ns-refresh' (see `cider-ns-refresh-before-fn' and `cider-ns-refresh-after-fn'."
"Press <\\[cider-describe-connection]> to view information about the connection."
"Press <\\[cider-undef]> to undefine a symbol in the current namespace."
"Press <\\[cider-interrupt]> to interrupt an ongoing evaluation."
"Use <M-x customize-group RET cider RET> to see every possible setting you can customize."
"Use <M-x customize-group RET cider-repl RET> to see every possible REPL setting you can customize."
"Enable `eldoc-mode' to display function & method signatures in the minibuffer."
"Enable `cider-enlighten-mode' to display the locals of a function when it's executed."
"Use <\\[cider-close-ancillary-buffers]> to close all ancillary buffers created by CIDER (e.g. *cider-doc*)."
"Exploring CIDER's menu-bar entries is a great way to discover features."
"Keep in mind that some commands don't have a keybinding by default. Explore CIDER!"
"Tweak `cider-repl-prompt-function' to customize your REPL prompt."
"Tweak `cider-eldoc-ns-function' to customize the way namespaces are displayed by eldoc."
"For no middleware, low-tech and reliable namespace reloading use <\\[cider-ns-reload]>."
"Press <\\[cider-load-buffer-and-switch-to-repl-buffer]> to load the current buffer and switch to the REPL buffer afterwards.")
"Some handy CIDER tips."
)
Another pearl: cider-random-words-of-inspiration
"Do. Or do not. There is no try. -Yoda"