Hi Curran, I'm in the process of learning Clojure and emacs as well and have run into a bit of difficulty as well, though I have a slightly different problem. I grabbed the 23.3 version of emacs from their ftp site and did NOT use the emacs starter kit. I discovered that the version of package.el that came with the emacs starter kit (at least the non git pulled one) was not playing nice with a few things. So instead, I just copied the package.el from the marmalade website and followed the instructions there (http://marmalade-repo.org).
Once package.el and marmalade were set up (package.el in my ~/.emacs.d folder, and the appropriate load code in my ~/.emacs file), I was ready to load clojure-mode. Just do: M-x package-refresh-contents M-x package-install And when prompted, type in clojure-mode and hit enter. That should install clojure-mode for you. And then finally, if you want to use clojure-jack-in, make sure you have both leiningen and the swank- clojure plugin installed. Leiningen was pretty easy to install, just go to https://github.com/technomancy/leiningen and follow the instructions. Once leiningen is installed and set in your $PATH, then you can install the swank-clojure plugin. lein plugin install swank-clojure "1.3.2" Now that you have leiningen, you can create a simple project with 'lein new my_clj_project', and it will generate a skeleton project for you. Since leiningen uses some Maven under the covers, it uses the maven-style convention of putting your source code under the src folder, and your namespaces are named starting from that path directory. Once you have a simple clojure file, you can try out the swank server. In emacs, you "visit" a file: C-x C-f And in the minibuffer, you can type the path to your file (it has some nifty code completion). Or if you prefer, you can hit C-F10 to open the menu bar (if it's not there already), and just click Open and browse to your file. Once the file is open in a buffer in emacs, now you can try to connect to swank. M-x clojure-jack-in If all goes well, you should see the swank server start up on port 4005 and you will have a REPL to play in. There should be a buffer called *swank* with messages from the swank server if it connected or not. My problem however is that I can't seem to load my namespace(s) into the swank REPL. I tried C-c C-l, but that only seemed to load some definitions from my namespace (it didn't load any of my (defrecords ...) I noticed). I tried in the REPL to do a (use 'my_project.myfile), but that still didn't appear to load anything from my namespace. Not being able to load namespaces from my leiningen project makes the swank REPL nearly useless to me. I can easily start a REPL through the command line with just the clojure jar or with the clojure plugin for jEdit. I suppose I could highlight all my code and eval it, but that seems silly. But anyway, hope that helps some. And, now a shameless plug....feel free to drop by my little blog site http://underaboddhitree.blogspot.com. It's a little of everything, but mostly geared towards python and my learning experience with clojure. I think that most blogs you see come from the Clojure masters...but sometimes I think they may have lost sight of a new clojurian's experience. I have no lisp background, except a 3 week crash course on lisp in my AI class in college several years ago. I also have zero experience with emacs except the last 2 weeks or so. Nor am I a functional master in any regard, and Clojure is the first functional language I have started to learn. But for me, the reward is worth the challenge. On Sep 10, 11:29 am, Curran <curran.kelle...@gmail.com> wrote: > Greetings, > > I would greatly appreciate any guidance on where to find a working and > complete set of instructions for how to set up Emacs with swank- > clojure. I am in Ubuntu. > > I have followed exactly every step of the instructions on this > pagehttp://dev.clojure.org/display/doc/Getting+Started+with+Emacs, and > also (with a fresh install of Emacs) the version using Git in the > comment on that page by Martin Blais. With both methods, when I > execute "M-x clojure-jack-in", the message "Starting swank server" > appears and hangs. Swank never starts, the message never changes, and > I don't see any error messages anywhere (not sure where to look, maybe > I'm missing them?). > > I really would like to use Clojure for a significant project, but if I > can't get the dev environment working I'm hosed. > > Also, if I can't get Emacs going, would anyone suggest an alternative > development tool? (I know there are lots, but I don't know which to > try first). > > Thank you very much. > > Best regards, > Curran -- 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
