Use comint-mode in the *nrepl-server* buffer?

[expez]

When writing a REST service I found myself watching the *nrepl-server* buffer pretty closely. This was where the output from the logger and the stacktraces from the server was ending up when I was hammeringit with a REST client.

Could we let this buffer use comint-mode so the buffer is automatically tailed?

[bbatsov]

See #818. I want us to devise a real solution instead of accepting the current broken behavior as a feature...

[expez]

Thanks for referencing that issue, I'll just copy-paste that code into my .emacs.

[bbatsov]

@expez Or you can try to solve the actual problem. :-) Unfortunately I'm super busy lately and don't have much time to work on CIDER...

[expez]

Well, I don't want the output from *out* and *err* spamming up my repl session so I'm not sure I see what value is added in figuring out how to redirect text from *out* and *err* to some other buffer. nrepl itself isn't putting any noticeable amount of text into the *nrepl-server* buffer so that isn't a problem for me either.

[bbatsov]

Well, I don't want the output from out and err spamming up my repl session so I'm not sure I see what value is added in figuring out how to redirect text from out and err to some other buffer. nrepl itself isn't putting any noticeable amount of text into the nrepl-server buffer so that isn't a problem for me either.

And where is this output supposed to go when you're not using cider-jack-in? (then the *nrepl-server* buffer doesn't exist)

Clearly it doesn't belong to a buffer supposed to show just the output of the local nREPL server itself...
Anyways, if people are fine with this behaviour - that's OK. But they should keep in mind that it's just accidental and will be removed sooner or later...