Show strings with quote marks around them? about cljs-devtools HOT 5 CLOSED

It could be possible, but I'm afraid I'm not going to override standard formatters for strings. That feels too intrusive. I'm afraid we could open a can of worms by trying to take over DevTools's job of formatting raw JS strings.

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I could implement a helper function which would "mark" a raw javascript thing as something to be printed by cljs-devtool's formatter. So you would explicitly ask for it to be rendered in cljs-devtools-way.

Similar to envelope: https://github.com/binaryage/cljs-devtools/blob/master/src/lib/devtools/toolbox.cljs#L5

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Hmm, not sure if the cure would be worse than the disease.

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I just did some quick tests and DevTools do not call custom formatters for primitive values like numbers, nulls or strings. I get a chance to format input only if it is wrapped in some non-primitive value (javascript object).

Also I noticed pretty weird behaviour of console formatting for strings. If the first argument to console.log is formatting string, then all following strings are black without quotes (they get rendered by string formatting routine). If the first argument is something else then strings are red with black quotes around them (they get rendered as objects with their internal string formatter).

I think it can be explained by two different rendering paths taken with formatting string and without it. But it is confusing at least.

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