Hi.
I like to write code on Clojure.
But after emacs it’s hard without slime and expression evaluation.
So, I wrote a little socket-based REPL and Sublime plugin for it.
First, download and build github.com/kondratovich/socket-repl.
Second, download github.com/kondratovich/evaluate. Instructions in README.
Now, you can run socket-repl and evaluate selected clojure expressions. Results will be in console.
Any suggestions ? You are welcome.
Practical Clojure and Joy of Clojure. The former is more of an intro while the latter is an intermediate book.
If you wish, you can try using SublimeREPL with Clojure.
It seems to be working rather well, when compared to the PITA that Ruby’s IRB is.
Hey, it works! neat plugin, thank you Andrew. And both the .clj and .py scripts are so cleanly written - I like how they just apply functions to data - as opposed to other approaches.
I see two ways in which this program could be improved. First, I don’t find all comfortable having to select the expressions prior to evaluating them. I’d just keep reading the input until the first parens/bracket/… is matched.
And second - I’d show the output in the console that is running the REPL server’s rather than in Sublime’s, as a) it’s more general-purpose -as the same program could serve other editors- and b) I don’t like to see Sublime’s and REPL’s output all mixed.
I reckon that actually it’d be fun and motivating to implement them myself but - perhaps you’d had no problem in adding those features?
Cheers - Victor.
[quote=“vemv”]First, I don’t find all comfortable having to select the expressions prior to evaluating them. I’d just keep reading the input until the first parens/bracket/… is matched.
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Agreed! This would be a great addition.
Agreed! This would be a great addition.[/quote]
Actually, I think what Clooj does is even simpler; it looks in both directions for a blank line, and evaluates everything between blank lines. So if you have a block of (def ) expressions, for example, you can evaluate them all with one stroke. But if you’re working in a function, it usually has blank lines before and after, so you grab and evaluate just the function.
I just pushed a change to SublimeREPL adding better block transfer for Clojure. Just set your cursor after the last bracket of the function you want evaluated and press F2, b
Multiple cursors are supporter. Use Shift+F2, B to experiment.