Feature request: a flag that does what dep search already does, but works for multiple artifacts and outputs a string suitable for -Sdeps

[p-himik]

An example workflow: suppose I want to test out traversy and specter in a quick plain clj-based REPL.

What I usually do:

1. neil dep search traversy
2. neil dep search specter
3. Get the right values
4. Compose clj -Sdeps '{:deps {...}}' manually
5. Run

What I'd like to be able to run instead, approximately:

1. clj -Sdeps "$(neil deps-edn traversy specter)"
2. "Failure: more than one matches for 'specter', please specify" followed by a list of matches
3. clj -Sdeps "$(neil deps-edn traversy com.rpl/specter)"

[borkdude]

Oh that would indeed be convenient!

[kpassapk]

I have been using deps-try for this, and I have loved it so far. This library targets the (rebl-readline) REPL and AFAIK doesn't provide a way to write out a deps.edn file. This would achieve a similar result but allow users to continue adding more dependencies. Seems like a plus.

[p-himik]

Ah, neat, didn't know about deps-try. But there are a couple of things that get in the way of using it:

• Doesn't show which version of a dependency has been used
• Doesn't attempt to guess that e.g. specter is actually com.rpl/specter - just fails with an opaque error