Connecting to an external REPL does not work when local nrepl port exists

[punit-naik]

If the .nrepl-port file is populated, while connecting to an external REPL, the prompt to pass external REPL's port does not pop up and calva directly connects to the nREPL port from the .nrepl-port file.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Populate the .nrepl-port file with some random port
2. Try connecting to an external REPL

[bpringe]

@PEZ What's the expected behavior in this case?

Also, I noticed I don't see that file mentioned in the docs. Should we add some info about it there?

[PEZ]

The expected behaviour is that Calva should ask for the nrepl port. We could pre-populate with the port number from .nrepl-port, maybe, but at least the user needs a way to change the port number. Most often the port file is written by some unrelated nREPL server.

I guess that where we talk about standalone connect we could mention that Calva looks for port files (based on connect sequence) and pre-populates the connect prompt.

[bpringe]

The expected behaviour is that Calva should ask for the nrepl port.

So this is a bug? I'll mark it as such, but remove the tag if I'm wrong.

[PEZ]

Yeah, we can call it a bug. 😄 It's an unhandled special case.