Moving to Leiningen 2.9.0 and Ultra 0.6.0
This morning I decided to see about the status on one of my favorite Leiningen plugins - Ultra, the formatter, highlighter for the REPL. It makes things so much easier to see and read at a glance, and follow along quickly with the output of a function, or the values in some input. It's really what syntax highlighting did to text editors. Very nice.
Anyway... I found that Ultra 0.6.0 was up on Clojars, and so I was able to move to Leiningen 2.9.0 in Homebrew with:
$ brew switch leiningen 2.9.0
and then I changed my ~/.lein/profiles.clj to be:
{ :user {:plugins [[lein-exec "0.3.7"] [venantius/ultra "0.6.0"]] :ultra {:color-scheme {:delimiter [:bold :yellow] :tag [:bold :yellow] :nil [:cyan] :boolean [:bold :cyan] :number [:bold :green] :string [:bold :red] :character [:cyan] :keyword [:yellow] :symbol [:bold :magenta] :function-symbol [:bold :blue] :class-delimiter [:blue] :class-name [:green] :exception [:bold :red]}} } }
and then I was ready to go.
One downside of moving to Leiningen 2.9.0 is that nREPL 0.6.0 formats the output a little differently, and it places an additional newline on the end of the output, so that it now appears to have a "double spaced" output:
where the top REPL was using the old nREPL in Leiningen 2.8.3, and the bottom one was using Leiningen 2.9.0 with nREPL 0.6.0. Now the developers may come to terms with this, and clean this up, or at least make it optional, but for now, I'm willing to live with the extra line as just "part of life"... as I really wanted to get to Ultra 0.6.0 and Leiningen 2.9.0 - due to it's significant structural changes under the hood.
Progress isn't always without a few bumps in the road...