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Vim

Paredit

Emacs users are used to the paredit plugin that makes it easy to keep parenthesis balanced. Vim users can get the same effect with paredit.vim.

Multi-repl, single environment, evaluating forms from Vim

Dependencies

Install Tmux
Install tslime.vim
Install Leiningen plugin: lein-repls
Also install the cljsh script on your path

Configure Lein repl

In project.clj add:

  :repl-init myapp.repl

In src/clj/myapp/repl.clj:

(ns myapp.repl
  (:use [cljs.repl.browser :only (repl-env)])
  (:require [cljs.repl]))

(defn repljs []
  (cljs.repl/repl (repl-env)))

Run repls

Open two TMux sessions in your project root directory
Run lein repls in one of them
This is your "server" or "macros" or "clj" repl
Run cljsh in the other one
This is your "client" or "cljs" repl
Eval (repljs)

Connect VIM

Open two instances of Vim
One in your src/clj directory and one in src/cljs directory
Press ^cc in each, selecting the right TMux session when prompted