Clients (Editors)

Clients are either editors with built in LSP support like Oni or nvim, or an appropriate plugin. Clients are responsible for launching the server, the server is a subprocess of your editor not a daemon.

In general, make sure to configure the client to use stdio and a server launch command like ['/usr/local/bin/clojure-lsp']. If that fails, you may need to have your client launch inside a shell, so use something like ['bash', '-c', '/usr/local/bin/clojure-lsp']. In windows you probably need to use the clojure-lsp.bat.

TIP: If your editor is not started from the terminal then it is possible that its $PATH is quite different from the one in the shell and clojure-lsp will not be able to find the executables it needs, such as clojure and npx. To alleviate that, create a wrapper script that sets the PATH correctly. Make sure that nothing in the script uses stdin / stdout as these are used for communication with the editor and any extra input/output could mess it up. An example script (also remember to make it executable, e.g. chmod u+x <script>):

#!/bin/bash -l
if [ ! -e npx ]; then
  export PATH=$PATH:/Users/me/.nvm/versions/node/v10.24.1/bin
fi
exec /usr/local/bin/clojure-lsp

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Emacs

lsp-mode has built in support for clojure-lsp. With use-package, add the following to your emacs config:

(use-package lsp-mode
  :ensure t
  :hook ((clojure-mode . lsp)
         (clojurec-mode . lsp)
         (clojurescript-mode . lsp))
  :config
  ;; add paths to your local installation of project mgmt tools, like lein
  (setenv "PATH" (concat
                   "/usr/local/bin" path-separator
                   (getenv "PATH")))
  (dolist (m '(clojure-mode
               clojurec-mode
               clojurescript-mode
               clojurex-mode))
     (add-to-list 'lsp-language-id-configuration `(,m . "clojure")))
  (setq lsp-clojure-server-command '("/path/to/clojure-lsp"))) ;; Optional: In case `clojure-lsp` is not in your $PATH

Optionally you can add lsp-ui for UI feedback and company-mode for completion:

(use-package lsp-ui
  :ensure t
  :commands lsp-ui-mode)

(use-package company
  :ensure t)

In lsp-mode, lsp-clojure-server-command variable is available to override the command to start the clojure-lsp server, might be necessary to do this on a Windows environment.

For a detailed guide on how to configure Emacs with LSP, check here

For more lsp-mode clojure settings, check here

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Visual Studio Code

Calva is a extension for VSCode for Clojure Development that includes clojure-lsp.

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Vim

I prefer https://github.com/neoclide/coc.nvim but both http://github.com/autozimu/LanguageClient-neovim and https://github.com/prabirshrestha/vim-lsp work well.

See my nvim/init.vim and coc-settings.json

Another example of a Neovim Conjure/CoC/clojure-lsp setup can be found on dharrigan's github repository.

LanguageClient-neovim can be configure with:

Refactorings:

function! Expand(exp) abort
    let l:result = expand(a:exp)
    return l:result ==# '' ? '' : "file://" . l:result
endfunction

nnoremap <silent> crcc :call LanguageClient#workspace_executeCommand('cycle-coll', [Expand('%:p'), line('.') - 1, col('.') - 1])<CR>
nnoremap <silent> crth :call LanguageClient#workspace_executeCommand('thread-first', [Expand('%:p'), line('.') - 1, col('.') - 1])<CR>
nnoremap <silent> crtt :call LanguageClient#workspace_executeCommand('thread-last', [Expand('%:p'), line('.') - 1, col('.') - 1])<CR>
nnoremap <silent> crtf :call LanguageClient#workspace_executeCommand('thread-first-all', [Expand('%:p'), line('.') - 1, col('.') - 1])<CR>
nnoremap <silent> crtl :call LanguageClient#workspace_executeCommand('thread-last-all', [Expand('%:p'), line('.') - 1, col('.') - 1])<CR>
nnoremap <silent> crml :call LanguageClient#workspace_executeCommand('move-to-let', [Expand('%:p'), line('.') - 1, col('.') - 1, input('Binding name: ')])<CR>
nnoremap <silent> cril :call LanguageClient#workspace_executeCommand('introduce-let', [Expand('%:p'), line('.') - 1, col('.') - 1, input('Binding name: ')])<CR>
nnoremap <silent> crel :call LanguageClient#workspace_executeCommand('expand-let', [Expand('%:p'), line('.') - 1, col('.') - 1])<CR>
nnoremap <silent> cram :call LanguageClient#workspace_executeCommand('add-missing-libspec', [Expand('%:p'), line('.') - 1, col('.') - 1])<CR>

initializationOptions can be sent by setting: let g:LanguageClient_settingsPath=".lsp/settings.json"

Project-local .lsp/settings.json would have content like:

{"initializationOptions": {
   "source-paths": ["shared-src", "src", "test", "dashboard/src"],
   "macro-defs": {"project.macros/dofor": ["bindings", "bound-elements"]}}}

Further refactoring mappings include being able to invoke the (coc-codeaction-*) function to provide actions such as move to let, change coll to map and so on.

nmap <silent> <Leader>cr            <Plug>(coc-rename)
nmap <silent> <Leader>cf            <Plug>(coc-references)
xmap <silent> <Leader>c             <Plug>(coc-codeaction-selected)
nmap <silent> <Leader>c             <Plug>(coc-codeaction-line)
nmap <silent> gd                    <Plug>(coc-definition)

Nvim

An very detailed document about how configure Nvim as Clojure IDE using fennel, clojure-lsp and conjure.
nvim-fennel-lsp-conjure-as-clojure-ide

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Intellij

clojure-lsp-intellij (recommended)

The clojure-lsp-intellij is a free open source Intellij plugin that has clojure-lsp built-in and has exclusive support from clojure-lsp maintainers with features that other generic LSP plugins does not support.

Generic lsp4intellij

Install the LSP Support plugin and configure it to launch clojure-lsp for Clojure/Script files:

1. Go to Preferences / Languages & Frameworks / Language Server Protocol / Server Definitions. Select Raw command.
2. In the Extension field enter clj;cljs;cljc;edn.
3. In the Command field enter the path to the executable, for instance /usr/local/bin/clojure-lsp.

BEWARE: The LSP Support plugin has short timeouts and will kill clojure-lsp silently if it exceeds the limit. It is highly recommended that you increase the Init timeout from 10000 (10s) to e.g. 300000 (5 min). The first scan can easily take over a minute on a bigger project. See Preferences / Languages & Frameworks / Language Server Protocol / Timeouts. If the plugin's icon in the status bar (a circle) turns red, it means starting clojure-lsp failed. Click on it and select Show timeouts - any limits that were exceeded will be in red.

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Sublime Text

Clojure LSP can be installed by first installing the LSP plugin which brings Language Server Protocol support to Sublime Text editor and then following the set-up instructions here to download Clojure LSP and how to configure it in Sublime Text.

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Oni

Seems to work reasonably well but couldn't get rename to work reliably https://github.com/onivim/oni

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Atom

I tried making a client but my hello world attempt didn't seem to work. If someone wants to take this on, I'd be willing to package it here too.