I found them useful for getting the repl to run - after following these instructions I was able to run 'cider-jack-in' and get to a repl that worked the same was as the one I had been using in Cursive.
They also pointed me to a couple of suggested packages to install, in which whichkey was one. However, with a running REPL, I had no idea what to do - I was consulting cheat sheets for things I knew I wanted to do, but did not have a clear way to discover all the options available to me. That's when I turned to the CftBT book and his configuration because at least I could see what a Clojure Developer was using. Installing whichkey and whatever package allows the search for functions was incredibly helpful (which inspired the original post). What I feel is missing from a lot of the Clojure world is documentation on how the real professional Clojure developers are working from a day to day perspective. This includes any that work in Emacs/CIDER - how are they working more productively than we can in Cursive or another IDE? With the tools I mention in my post, I can see how you can get started down that path. As far as the CIDER docs go, I think a huge way to increase their utility would be to provide an example Emacs configuration so that people can just download it and get up and running within a context that can be discussed in the documentation. I'm sure people have these configurations running - you can use the ones that I put up as well. On Sunday, March 4, 2018 at 7:13:37 AM UTC-6, Bozhidar Batsov wrote: > > Btw, didn't you find the instructions in the official manual useful ( > http://cider.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installation/ and > http://cider.readthedocs.io/en/latest/up_and_running/). Admitted they are > not great, but they do cover a lot of ground and are reasonably up-to-date. > > On 3 March 2018 at 23:11, Chris Shellenbarger <ch...@cloudrepo.io > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> I spent the last week learning and using Emacs and CIDER for Clojure >> Development. >> >> I've started to write up a lot of the lessons I've learned from doing so >> in the hopes that it will help some other people who attempt something >> similar. >> >> Anyway, if you're interested in getting started with Emacs and CIDER, >> you'll have to learn about how to use the keyboard so I wrote a couple of >> key lessons in a Medium post: Developing in Clojure with Emacs: >> Mastering the Keyboard >> <https://medium.com/@chris.shellenbarger/developing-in-clojure-with-emacs-mastering-the-keyboard-6cb9bef7f760> >> . >> >> My environment was Emacs 24.5.1 with CIDER 0.16.0 on Linux Mint 18.3. >> >> I used the Clojure for the Brave and True <https://www.braveclojure.co> book >> for a basic intro into Emacs <https://www.braveclojure.com/basic-emacs/> and >> used the provided emacs configuration files as a starting point. However, >> these only worked with CIDER 0.8.0 and were about four years old. I made >> some modifications of the files to work with CIDER 0.16.0 and put them up >> for anyone to use on my BitBucket Repository >> <https://bitbucket.org/64BitChris/linux-emacs-configuration>. >> >> I have a lot more to share about my Emacs experience, but I found that >> there was so much that I had to split it into multiple posts. >> >> Hope it helps someone out there! >> >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "Clojure" group. >> To post to this group, send email to clo...@googlegroups.com >> <javascript:> >> Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with >> your first post. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> clojure+u...@googlegroups.com <javascript:> >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Clojure" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to clojure+u...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
