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.
>>
>>
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