Actually what happened is that the cursive plugin continued working even after I upgraded to idea 14.1. Though obviously I could not reinstall the same plugin subsequent to that upgrade after an uninstall. At least, I am pretty sure that that is what happened. :-)
Can we close this thread please? On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 2:23 PM, Niels van Klaveren < niels.vanklave...@gmail.com> wrote: > If you had read more attentively, he uninstalled Cursive because he > suspected a reinstall might fix an error. However, the error was caused > because in Cursive, an extra step is necessary configuring the project to > make gen-class work in certain situations, so the unistall was unnecessary. > > When reinstalling, he added the wrong update site version when installing > the plugin, which is why Cursive didn't work. Fixing the update link fixed > Cursive. > > So no problems were caused by Cursive or IntelliJ, just two > misconfigurations. > > > > On Tuesday, August 25, 2015 at 8:08:16 PM UTC+2, Fluid Dynamics wrote: >> >> On Tuesday, August 25, 2015 at 1:05:30 PM UTC-4, Colin Fleming wrote: >>> >>> On 25 August 2015 at 18:22, Fluid Dynamics <a209...@trbvm.com> wrote: >>> >>>> I seem to recall criticizing a piece of Clojure-relevant *technology* >>>> that had the rather remarkable property that it could be working, be >>>> deleted and reinstalled (exact same version), and suddenly be *not* >>>> working. >>>> >>> >>> Except that's not actually what happened. The sequence of events is >>> difficult to work out from the email chain, but William was trying to >>> install a version of Cursive into a version of IntelliJ it didn't support. >>> That never works, and I'm 100% sure that it hadn't worked for him >>> previously. >>> >> >> I'm pretty sure he said he uninstalled Cursive, then reinstalled the >> exact same version of Cursive that he had just uninstalled, and it didn't >> work. That clearly is broken behavior. If it was there and working fine >> before, then scrozzled itself, and then reinstalling it made things *worse* >> instead of getting it back into the pre-scrozzled state, then that's broken. >> >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Clojure" group. > To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with > your first post. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "Clojure" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/clojure/rCfF1_Gc_tg/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.