What does ‘cider-jack-in’ do

(written by lawrence krubner, however indented passages are often quotes). You can contact lawrence at: lawrence@krubner.com, or follow me on Twitter.

I was a bit curious about this::

When you ask Emacs to start a new REPL using cider-jack-in it actually sends this request to Leiningen, the Clojure build automation tool. Once Leiningen has started the REPL, then a connection is made to that REPL from Emacs using the nREPL protocol.

This feature is from the CIDER package for Emacs, a Leiningen plugin called cider-nrepl and the Clojure tools.nrepl library are required.

Cider configuration (version 0.10 and earlier)
In earlier versions of CIDER (<= 0.10) the following configuration had to be added to your ~/.lein/profiles.clj file and updated when there were new versions of cider-nrepl and tools.nrepl. The versions of each library also had to be kept in sync.

{:user {:plugins      [[cider/cider-nrepl “0.11.0-SNAPSHOT”]
                       [refactor-nrepl “2.0.0-SNAPSHOT”]]
        :dependencies [[alembic “0.3.2”]
                       [org.clojure/tools.nrepl “0.2.12”]]}}

From version 0.11 of CIDER, these dependencies are automatically injected when you run a command to start a REPL. The versions of cider-nrepl and tools-nrepl are maintained in the Clojure layer configuration.

Post external references

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    https://practicalli.github.io/spacemacs/clojure-repl/what-does-jackin-do.html
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