I sometimes accidentally run into some nuisance when in the input mode of evil mode with Clojure mode,
I’m kept prompted at the mini-buffer “Lisp expression:” that I don’t know what to do with it. I tried to enter some text, or Lisp expression, but I still get the same prompt without any helpful feedback, not able to do anything meaningful, useful. I want to know from which mode/package does this come from, so that I can disable it or remove this uninvited intrusion.
I’m using emacs/Doom, with a copied customization that I don’t fully know. It has Clojure mode, cider running at the buffer. There might be more running that I don’t know.
The problem might be related to “lispy.clojure”, as I saw an error message of
" Syntax error compiling at (src/yubrshen/eta_variances.clj:1:1).
No such var: lispy.clojure/pp"
I realized later that disabling lispy “layer” in doom-emacs init.el does not solve the issue.
It still came back by some unknown keys. I’d like to trace where it’s enabled.
Even, I manually disable lispy-mode, it would still come back.
You might be right. I indeed forgot to do doom sync after commenting out the lispy feature in init.el
It seems this time, all functions of lispy have been disappeared.
I realize that I still want to use lispy.
In case, if you have any clue when and how one can be trapped in the state of “Lisp expression:” prompt at the minibuffer, please share.
It seems that it only occur when I’m in input mode of evil and typing a symbol name.
@Carsten_Behring and @mjmeintjes are you using emacs-doom (maybe lispyville.el) with lispy.el?
I’m trying to find the corresponding source code for the behavior of keep prompting “Lisp expression:”.
I did find a few places of (read-string…) function call, that might be the source in lispy.el.
but I found none of read-string in lispyville.el
I also check (interactive “p”…) in both modules, and found none plausible.
If I remember correctly, I have encountered a similar problem - I use lispy too and can’t quite give it up. I can’t quite emulate the problem at the moment to verify, but when I last dug, it led me to the company-capf function being triggered
@mjmeintjes Thanks!
During the Christmas holiday, I finished and annotate the lispy.el demo on Youtube.
Here is demo with my annotation in the comment section:
lispy is actually very powerful and sensible Lisp editing machine, if this disturbance can be avoided.
I’ve taken a look at symex.el. I like it being conceptually clean.
But I find the extra mode of symex a hurdle in addition to the evil’s normal mode, and input mode.
I’d rather have lispy to help in the input mode.
I had the same feeling about Symex. I think the author uses it along with Rigba, which is a system for changing the modal modes “tower”. So instead of escaping insert mode and going to normal MODE (INSERT → NORMAL) , you add a Symex mode in between, so you get INSERT → SYMEX → NORMAL.
I’m still working on setting this up and seeing if it works for me, will post my findings.
