Hi all, I recently started playing with leiningen, and it looks like it's going to help remove a lot of the incidental complexity in getting projects started with clojure! However I had some what of a hard time getting it going with Emacs/clojure-mode/slime... This is likely because clojure-mode/slime/swank evolve more quickly than I keep up, but that in itself is a problem... especially when there's little google-able discussion on the recomended methods online.
Anyway I finally seem to have got things worked out... so I thought I'd document here what I tried... Perhaps this'll be useful to others. My original setup was based on clojure-mode's clojure-install option (it seems that since then this has been deprecated)... I had leiningen setup bootstrapped and built from the github master as described at: http://github.com/technomancy/leiningen The leiningen setup & bootstrapping process for the bleeding edge version which claims to have Emacs integration ( http://wiki.github.com/technomancy/leiningen/emacs-integration ) worked flawlessly. In this setup, running lein swank at the terminal followed by slime-connect would fail to work. I assumed this was because of an incompatibility between the swank version lein had installed, and my old clojure-mode slime setup, so I set about reinstalling slime/clojure-mode. It wasn't clear what was the prefered way to install this stuff, so I tried ELPA... I installed ELPA by following the instructions at http://tromey.com/elpa/install.html The Emacs 22 instructions seemed to work ok under Emacs 23... I then ran package-list-packages, and selected clojure-mode, clojure-test-mode, slime-repl, swank-clojure... This failed as ELPA doesn't seem smart enough to know when a dependency is already installed... So instead I had to delete all the packages and install just swank-clojure (which appeared to install most of the others). After restarting Emacs however I couldn't get clojure-mode, swank or slime to load... I'm not sure why... I gave up on this approach and tried to follow the installation instructions for installing swank-clojure from source here: http://github.com/technomancy/swank-clojure This approach seemed to work, putting me firmly on the bleeding edge of technomancy's leiningen, swank-clojure, clojure-mode and slime... It turns out though, that to do this you also need ELPA installed... But running M-x package-install-from-buffer works. I'm not sure why this setup worked but the ELPA installation method didn't. Anyway, the new swank-clojure-project function seems to work with leiningen (picking up all dependencies from under /lib)... Also running $ lein swank and issuing a slime-connect seems to work, though this hangs the terminal but accessing it via slime-connect is ok... Would doing something like this in lein swank, so as not to hang the tty be better? (do (ignore-protocol-version "2009-10-16") (spit (java.io.File. "port.txt") "") (start-server "port.txt" :port 4005 :dont-close true)) Anyway, things seem to be working... and I'm now pretty happy, but I have some questions... 1) What is the recommended install method for this stuff? 2) Is my current setup reasonably future proof with regards to emacs/slime and swank? Or would I better getting the ELPA version working? Phil, do you keep all your master branches in sync? i.e. are will your github master branches allways 'work' with each other? Would it make sense to use git submodules to version all these things at a cross-project level? Anyway, thanks again for all this... Things are definitely getting easier, regarding project setup etc! R. -- 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
