clojure nrepl in emacs saving state - always evaluating entire file on nrepl-jack-in

Question

I'm using emacs live to set up my clojure environment. 1) What command would cause nrepl to try and evaluate the entire file upon jack-in? 2) Is there some place where session state is saved?

For some unknown reason emacs is now trying to evaluate the entire clojure file when I execute M-x nrepl-jack-in. It used to not do that. I have an error in my file and, since the execution fails, I can't start nrepl with this file. This is not the first time I've run into some semantics that change. I've tried restarting emacs but that doesn't help.

Thanks

Answer 1

nrepl's jack-in behavior is dependent on the location of the file backing the buffer you are visiting when you invoke the jack-in command.

To get a vanilla no-project repl, be sure to run nrepl-jack-in from a buffer where there is no Clojure project. To run a repl in a specific project via jack-in, run it while visiting a file in the top level of that project (project.clj is a prime cantidate).