RET doesn't go to a new line if form is incomplete in REPL

[chadhs]

I'm using spacemacs and the clojure layer.

If I jack in SPC m s i
and then switch to the REPL SPC m s s
and then start writing a function that looks like this:

(defn cool-function []

and press return, I get an unbalanced parens error. screenshot: https://www.dropbox.com/s/xtu4y9c18otyntk/Screenshot%202015-11-14%2022.26.00.png?dl=0

^ j does work for entering down, but the docs say that if an expression is incomplete return should do so as well.

Let me know if you need any further info, thank you!

[chadhs]

FYI ^ j works just dandy for now:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/4o1iss9b133a9mm/Screenshot%202015-11-14%2022.29.58.png?dl=0

[johngit22]

Not Bad. It loo Damm Good in fact, thanks.
On Nov 14, 2015 11:32 PM, "Chad Stovern" notifications@github.com wrote:

FYI ^ j works just dandy for now:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/4o1iss9b133a9mm/Screenshot%202015-11-14%2022.29.58.png?dl=0

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[Malabarba]

This is because RET sends the form in the REPL, it never inserts newlines.
I guess we could have it insert newlines when the form is incomplete, as that's sort of what a regular repl does.

[bbatsov]

Yeah, probably we should do this. Should pretty simple if we just use check-parens or something like this.

[Malabarba]

We already do that, it's just a matter of inserting a newline instead of complaining of the unbalance.

[chadhs]

@bbatsov @Malabarba or would it make more sense to use ⇧↩, especially with smart parens strict mode enabled. thoughts?

[bbatsov]

The Shift + RET keybinding is not that common in Emacs (and we already have C-j). I'm a paredit/smartparens user and I know I'm supposed to press C-j; probably other people are aware of this as well.

[chadhs]

@bbatsov 👍 yeah i agree that sounds good. thanks for all your work; CIDER is an amazing experience even for a novice Clojure tinkerer like me. ^_^