Asynchronous Clojure Interactive Development

What is it for?

Acid.nvim is a plugin for clojure development on neovim. It was initially designed within iron.nvim, but evolved to be a proper clojure plugin for neovim.

Design and Structure

It is built fundamentally on neovims async capabilities and rely deeply on clojures refactor-nrepl and nrepl-python-client.

Installing

First, install the python dependencies:

pip3 install --user neovim

Update your ~/.lein/profiles.clj adding the following lines:

[refactor-nrepl "2.3.0-SNAPSHOT"]
[cider/cider-nrepl "0.14.0"]

Then, add and install acid:

Plug 'clojure-vim/acid.nvim', { 'do': ':UpdateRemotePlugins' }

Acid is a remote plugin. This means it communicates with neovim using the rpc interface.

Running

Acid has some commands for interacting with the nrepl.

Currently, there is no documentation for those commands, but a few are worth mentioning here:

• <leader>N Creates a new file
• K Shows documentation for the symbol below cursor
• car Requires current file
• caR Requires dependency line below cursor (i.e. [clojure.string :as str])
• gu Shows usage of symbol below cursor
• gd Goes to definition of symbol below cursor
• cp<motion> Sends the block to nrepl for evaluation
• cpp Shorthand mapping for evaluating the whole block below cursor (up until the outermost)

All those are defined as Commands as well:

• AcidNewFile <ns.file> Creates a new file under supplied ns.name.
• AcidNewFilePrompt Prompts for the full filename for creation.
• AcidLoadAll Loads all project namespaces into the nrepl for easier navigation.
• AcidRequire [<require> [<options>]] Requires a namespace.
  • If no parameters supplied, loads current ns.
  • Arguments supplied can be the same as a require vector, taking options:
    • AcidRequire clojure.string :as str
    • AcidRequire clojure.string :refer [join]
• AcidDoc <ns/symbol> Shows the documentation of the supplied symbol.

There are a few more which are unstable and/or incomplete.

Cool, I want more

Take a look at the design page for a better understanding on how acid works.

Acid is growing up in both complexity and features and there is still a lot of work to be done. Please take a look at the TODO for the roadmap.