Clojure and Vim - bare essentials setup

I recorded my vim + clojure setup a few days ago. I’m quite new to clojure and had a hard time figuring everything out. So hopefully this can be of help to someone new to vim + clojure.

You can checkout the video here: youtu.be/gb58d9-W-kA

I just wanted to have a vim setup which is enough for me to explore clojures repl from vim in the quickest way possible.

My notes from the video:

Clojure Vim Setup

• Unknown unknowns
• Avoiding fancy stuff
• Linting
• REPL driven development
• Connecting to repl from vim
• Manipulating parens

Requirements

• Opendjk-8/11

  sudo apt install default-jdk
  

• Clojure

  curl -O https://download.clojure.org/install/linux-install-1.10.1.561.sh
  chmod +x linux-install-1.10.1.561.sh
  sudo ./linux-install-1.10.1.561.sh
  

• Leininininingen

  • https://leiningen.org/

Vim plugins

• clj-kondo with Ale

  curl -sLO https://raw.githubusercontent.com/borkdude/clj-kondo/master/script/install-clj-kondo
  chmod +x install-clj-kondo
  ./install-clj-kondo
  

• cider-nrepl

  {:user
    {:plugins [[cider/cider-nrepl "0.25.3"]]}
  

• vim-fireplace

  • cqc: quasi repl blank line
  • cqq: quasi repl fill the form
  • cpp: push the current form to the repl
• vim-parinfer
• async-clj-omni

Post video thoughts

Funnily enough, I’m trying out emacs + doom now because I’ve been fed up with VimL for quite some time.

Elisp used to look arcane but after learning the basics of clojure it is finally readable (and seems much better than VimL from my limited interaction with it).

I did try Conjure and I’ve seen the author quite active in clojurians #vim channel, but I found vim-fireplace to be an easier starting point so I just went with it. :)