cider-eval-last-sexp-and-replace can't handle bare keyword

[fordsfords]

Start with this line in your clojure buffer:

:foo

Execute cider-eval-last-sexp (C-x C-e). The result properly displays as:

:foo

Now try cider-eval-last-sexp-and-replace (C-c C-w) on it. It pops up the cider-error buffer with:

clojure.lang.Compiler$CompilerException: java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to resolve symbol: foo in this context, compiling:(NO_SOURCE_PATH:0:0)

Interestingly, if I try it on "[:foo]", it all works fine. It looks like cider is stripping the colon if it is the first character in the sexp (an unlikely use case, to be sure).

[bbatsov]

What version of cider are you using? I can't reproduce this with the current master.

[fordsfords]

CIDER 0.8.0snapshot (package: 20140903.908)

I did a package-refresh-contents of melpa a few hours after you fixed #772.

(pause)

... um ... hmm ... (blush) ... OK, I wasted some of your time, which I am very sorry about. I've been taking notes in a normal .txt file, in which clojure mode is NOT set. But I've found that I can still jack in and use cider to execute little code fragments from the text buffer. It's been working fine, and I kind of forgot that I'm using cider in an unnatural way. (no comments from the peanut gallery)

I just tried it again editing a .clj file with clojure mode, and lo and behold, it works fine. Edit a .txt file and it fails.

So it's not your code, it's a strange interaction with text mode. Feel free to close this as PEBKAC (see title text). I'll be sure in the future to retry problems under a supported use case.

P.S. - thanks for your Clojure style guide. Good stuff in there. I even learned for the first time about the double-space-between-sentences controversy. Yeah, I'm old as dirt and took a typing class in the 70's; it might take me another 40 years to un-learn that one. :-)

[bbatsov]

I just tried it again editing a .clj file with clojure mode, and lo and behold, it works fine. Edit a .txt file and it fails.

sexp navigation doesn't work properly in text-mode, therefore the problem you've experienced.

P.S. - thanks for your Clojure style guide. Good stuff in there. I even learned for the first time about the double-space-between-sentences controversy. Yeah, I'm old as dirt and took a typing class in the 70's; it might take me another 40 years to un-learn that one. :-)

You're welcome! :-)