Intentionally avoiding leiningen on ideological grounds will make things more difficult and frustrating for yourself. If you do want to try it out, there are links below to get you started below. You can realistically be up and running with emacs and slime in less than an hour.
lein: https://github.com/technomancy/leiningen lein tutorial: https://github.com/technomancy/leiningen/blob/1.x/doc/TUTORIAL.md swank-clojure: https://github.com/technomancy/swank-clojure On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 8:46 PM, Jake Penton <jakepen...@gmail.com> wrote: > Sorry to raise something that has probably been asked and answered umpteen > times. > I have been looking forward to trying clojure for quite some time. I > appreciate that clojure and its ecosystem is undergoing rapid > development. However, I have spent the last day and a half trying to get > either aquamacs or gnu emacs working with slime and clojure, with no > success. > BTW, I have used aquamacs with slime and Common Lisp (ccl, sbcl) for a long > time now. I know those are older, more stable languages, but good golly - I > had aquamacs+slime+ccl set up in about an hour. > > Is their a reliable set of instructions to set up slime with clojure > somewhere? > > I have followed instructions from a half dozen different web pages. They are > rich in magic incantations which fail (possibly because I'm dense). I think > I followed the instructions on the Getting Started with Emacs page linked to > from the clojure site, but - it did not work. Perhaps my attitude is wrong, > but the user comments on the Getting Started page basically demolished my > confidence in the information there. > I won't post error messages yet, although it may come to that shortly. > I would prefer to use aquamacs, but would settle for GNU Emacs. What I want > to start with is the simplest set of things that will give me a clojure REPL > in aquamacs/emacs. > In the absence of reliable installation instructions (or perhaps even > preferable to them), is there a description somewhere of the final target > state that my system should be in? That is, I actually do NOT really want to > use any of the following, unless absolutely required: > > an Emacs Starter Kit > a development version of GNU Emacs, i.e. v.24 > any kind of package manager for Emacs > any kind of project build system for clojure, i.e. leiningen > > All of the above appear to me to be well-intended "help", any or all of > which have broken on me as I tried this. Instead I would prefer to know what > files I need in what locations. But then, who am I to boss y'all around on > how to help me ;-) > My setup: > > Snow Leopard 10.6.8 > aquamacs 2.3a > GNU Emacs 24 > clojure and clojure-contrib from macports, whatever their latest is > Slime-related jar files and elisp files littered all over the place that > didn't do me any good > > TIA. > > - Jake - > > -- > 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 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
