Making CIDER More Discoverable

This series about the notable changes in CIDER 2.0 continues with the change you’ll bump into first, whatever your workflow: the transient menus, and the broader push to make CIDER’s functionality discoverable. The problem: CIDER is huge CIDER has well over 300 interactive commands. I’ll admit something I’ve said before: there are features in CIDER that even I forget exist, and I wrote half of them. For users, historically, the options for finding functionality were: memorize cryptic key chords (C-c C-w i, anyone?) grep the (very long) manual read the source stumble on a feature by accident three years in and feel robbed That’s not great for a tool whose whole pitch is making you more productive. The Emacs answer to this problem was demonstrated years ago by Magit: transient menus, which turn every prefix into a self-documenting popup. It took us embarrassingly long to follow suit, but CIDER 2.0 finally does. Transient everywhere Every command group in CIDER now opens a transient…