Help at the REPL

rebel readline provides tools to help you discover and use functions from clojure.core and any other libraries you add to the REPL.

:repl/help will show all the commands available for rebel readline

Tab to autocomplete the current characters into a function name. All functions that match the characters will be show, allowing quick discovery of functions available. Typing in the first few characters of a function and press

Moving the cursor after the name of a function will show the signatures available, so a function can be called with the correct number and form of arguments.

Ctrl+C+Ctrl+d on a function name shows the docstring to help understand the functions purpose.

clojure.repl/doc function also shows the docstring of a function (clojure.repl/doc doc)

Ctrl+X Ctrl+a on a name shows all the possible matching functions to help you discover what is available. Tab through the list of matches, Enter to select a function

Rebel Commands

Type :repl/help or :repl followed by Tab to see a list of available commands.

Keybinding	Description
:repl/help	Prints the documentation for all available commands.
:repl/key-bindings	search or list current key bindings
:repl/quit	Quits the REPL
:repl/set-color-theme	Change the color theme :dark-screen-theme :light-screen-theme
:repl/set-key-map	Change key bindings to given key-map, :emacs :vicmd :viins
:repl/toggle-color	Toggle ANSI text coloration on and off
:repl/toggle-completion	Toggle the completion functionality on and off
:repl/toggle-eldoc	Toggle the auto display of function signatures on and off
:repl/toggle-highlight	Toggle readline syntax highlighting on and off
:repl/toggle-indent	Toggle the automatic indenting of Clojure code on and off

Key-bindings

Keybinding	Description
Ctrl+c	aborts editing the current line
Ctrl+d	at the start of a line => sends an end of stream message
Tab	word completion or code indent when cursor in whitespace at the start of line
Ctrl+x Ctrl+d	Show documentation for word at point
Ctrl+x Ctrl+s	Show source for word at point
Ctrl+x Ctrl+a	Show apropos for word at point
Ctrl+x Ctrl+e	Inline eval for SEXP before the point

Examine key-bindings with the :repl/key-bindings command.