Should cider sexp evaluation include meta hints and reader macros?

[Malabarba]

When you invoke cider-eval-last-sexp at the end of the following snippet, only the function is sent for evaluation, not the hint.

^{:batman false} (inc 1)

However, to the clojure reader, that is a single expression. Now, I'm not saying that's a bug, and I realise this is in line with sexp navigation (which should not change), but perhaps it would be convenient for cider to send that entire thing for evaluation?

This is a bit more annoying when dealing with reader macros. i.e., #inst "1970-01-01T00:00:09" is pretty hard to evaluate.

[bbatsov]

Hmm, you're raising a great point. Ideally we should be evaluating them together, but for this to happen we'll need to alter quite a bit of things internally. Right now we're using the standard Emacs sexp-related commands and they obviously don't have any Clojure support. Probably we should implement such commands and stuff them in clojure-mode. Other ideas are welcome. As are patches! ;-)

[bbatsov]

@Malabarba Now that the new commands are available would you like to integrate them in evaluation?

[Malabarba]

I thought I had already. ☺
Will do that.

[Malabarba]

Yep, it's in eabfac8
I just forgot to reference this issue.

[Malabarba]

Btw, if anyone wants to test this, just do (set! *print-meta* true) in the repl, and then run eval-last-sexp after something like ^:private [1 2].