Re: Help! My slime-fu is broken!

2009-12-15 Thread Mike K
On Dec 15, 8:42 pm, Phil Hagelberg wrote: > > Ah, OK.  That explains the overload of the term "compile" > > I'll add a note to this to the swank-clojure readme. Cool. > I wasn't even aware that the CL version provided error navigation > here. But it looks like it shouldn't be too hard to fix no

Re: Help! My slime-fu is broken!

2009-12-15 Thread Mike K
On Dec 15, 8:26 am, David Nolen wrote: > > Rereading your post I realize that most of your concerns are about the > general unfriendliness of SLIME and not so much that it isn't working. As > Phil alludes, SLIME wasn't designed with Clojure in mind, so a lot of things > happen that don't make a

Re: Help! My slime-fu is broken!

2009-12-15 Thread Phil Hagelberg
Mike K writes: > (add-to-list 'load-path "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Clojure Box\\swank- > clojure") > > (require 'swank-clojure-autoload) Sounds like you're using an old-ish version of swank-clojure; the autoloads are now generated automatically by elpa. >> Slime was designed for use with Common

Re: Help! My slime-fu is broken!

2009-12-15 Thread David Nolen
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 2:08 AM, Mike K wrote: > I hadn't considered another IDE. Clojure is my first real exposure to > the JVM, so I'm not familiar with Java IDEs. OTOH, Emacs has been my > editor of choice for over two decades (yikes!) so it's definitely home > turf for me. Besides, I'm alr

Re: Help! My slime-fu is broken!

2009-12-14 Thread Mike K
On Dec 14, 10:40 pm, David Nolen wrote: > While I personally use Emacs+SLIME to do Clojure hacking this is generally a > poor introduction to Clojure for newbies. Clojure is new enough territory > without having to fight with your text editor and the idiosyncracies of > SLIME (SLIME hasn't even be

Re: Help! My slime-fu is broken!

2009-12-14 Thread Mike K
On Dec 14, 10:55 pm, Phil Hagelberg wrote: > How did you install slime? If you use trunk of slime you will run into > breaking changes for which swank-clojure hasn't been updated yet. It's > best to use ELPA, the Emacs package manager. (http://tromey.com/elpa) I tried to use ELPA at first but I

Re: Help! My slime-fu is broken!

2009-12-14 Thread Phil Hagelberg
Mike K writes: > I've a Clojure newbie, and I've just started running clojure-mode and > slime under emacs (on Windows). I'm running into several issues. Some > of these are definitely bugs in my understanding; others may be bugs > in my install or the implementation itself. I'd appreciate any h

Re: Help! My slime-fu is broken!

2009-12-14 Thread David Nolen
While I personally use Emacs+SLIME to do Clojure hacking this is generally a poor introduction to Clojure for newbies. Clojure is new enough territory without having to fight with your text editor and the idiosyncracies of SLIME (SLIME hasn't even been compatible with swank-clojure since late Octob

Re: Help! My slime-fu is broken!

2009-12-14 Thread Richard Newman
I can answer this part: > Clearly this is a debugger. I won't ask for details as to what I can > do here, except for this: Typing 0 will get me back to the repl. > Fine. However, Typing 1 will "Throw cause of this exception". What > exactly does that mean? Is it rethrowing the same exception,

Help! My slime-fu is broken!

2009-12-14 Thread Mike K
Hello Clojurians, I've a Clojure newbie, and I've just started running clojure-mode and slime under emacs (on Windows). I'm running into several issues. Some of these are definitely bugs in my understanding; others may be bugs in my install or the implementation itself. I'd appreciate any help an