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How to Leverage The Current Form in Calva

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This tutorial explains the concept of the current form in Calva and how to evaluate and navigate it within VS Code.

In Calva there is the concept of the Current Form, similar to the current word in a word processor, but in Calva it is a bit smarter than that, and also quite a bit more important. The current form can be selected, navigated over, dragged, deleted and, of course evaluated. We have tried to make Calva have the same idea of what is the current form as you have. Reminder. If you haven't filled in the survey State of Clojure 2022 yet, please do! surveymonkey.com/r/clojure2022 Calva is an easy to use Clojure and ClojureScript IDE for Visual Studio Code. calva.io/ github.com/BetterThanTomorrow/calva marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=betterthantomorr…

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What people say. Recommended as a helpful introduction to evaluating Clojure expressions using the current form in Calva.

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On “Clojure and VS Code beginner setup Tutorial”

…is often a better place to evaluate Clojure expressions. More words, but since you can get rid of the rainbow brackets extension mention, you might afford them. 😂 When introducing evaluation in Calva, I think you should also mention the command for evaluating the current form, shortcut **Ctrl+Enter**. I try to introduce the current form here: [video…