Re: Moderately off-topic: installing emacs on OSX

2010-12-14 Thread Johann Hibschman
javajosh writes: > Ok, I decided to nuke ports, fink, and delete every package they ever > installed. I successfully installed emacs 23.2 via homebrew (there's a > good overview of homebrew here > http://ascarter.net/2010/02/22/homebrew-for-os-x.html). I'm coming late to this game, and I see tha

Re: Moderately off-topic: installing emacs on OSX

2010-12-13 Thread Phil Hagelberg
On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 9:10 PM, javajosh wrote: > But seriously, it looks like despite the SLIME error it installed, and > the lein stuff installed without a problem, so I have a pretty decent > environment. Phew, that was easy! Yeah, though it's not so bad on OSes that have a good built-in pack

Re: Moderately off-topic: installing emacs on OSX

2010-12-13 Thread javajosh
On Dec 13, 8:51 pm, Phil Hagelberg wrote: > If you check out the source for Emacs 24, it comes with package.el > already, so once it's released it will definitely be the lowest-hassle > way to get started. No need to worry about instability; I've been > following Emacs trunk since 2007 or so witho

Re: Moderately off-topic: installing emacs on OSX

2010-12-13 Thread Phil Hagelberg
On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 8:27 PM, Robert McIntyre wrote: > I don't know how applicable this might be for you, but I've had no > problems whatsoever checking out the latest source for emacs 23 and > compiling from source using the mac developer tools, all on my > friend's laptop.  All I did was type

Re: Moderately off-topic: installing emacs on OSX

2010-12-13 Thread javajosh
On Dec 9, 11:11 pm, Andy Fingerhut wrote: > > Follow the instructions on the ELPA page for installing it: > >      http://tromey.com/elpa/install.html > > After you do M-x package-list-packages, go down the list of packages   > until the cursor is on the line for the package "clojure-mode", pre

Re: Moderately off-topic: installing emacs on OSX

2010-12-13 Thread Robert McIntyre
I don't know how applicable this might be for you, but I've had no problems whatsoever checking out the latest source for emacs 23 and compiling from source using the mac developer tools, all on my friend's laptop. All I did was type make and cross my fingers. you might give it 5 minutes if other

Re: Moderately off-topic: installing emacs on OSX

2010-12-13 Thread javajosh
Aha! You're a genius! On Dec 13, 8:06 pm, gaz jones wrote: > homebrew installs a mac application to: > > /usr/local/Cellar/emacs/23.2/Emacs.app/ > > by default which you can run from there, or copy to your /Applications > folder to run. running from the terminal doesnt seem to work so well > in m

Re: Moderately off-topic: installing emacs on OSX

2010-12-13 Thread gaz jones
homebrew installs a mac application to: /usr/local/Cellar/emacs/23.2/Emacs.app/ by default which you can run from there, or copy to your /Applications folder to run. running from the terminal doesnt seem to work so well in my experience. On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 8:43 PM, javajosh wrote: > Ok, I

Re: Moderately off-topic: installing emacs on OSX

2010-12-13 Thread javajosh
Ok, I decided to nuke ports, fink, and delete every package they ever installed. I successfully installed emacs 23.2 via homebrew (there's a good overview of homebrew here http://ascarter.net/2010/02/22/homebrew-for-os-x.html). I started the emacs it installed, but I didn't know how to access the

Re: Moderately off-topic: installing emacs on OSX

2010-12-13 Thread Steve Purcell
Chris Maier writes: >> (if window-system (set-exec-path-from-shell-PATH)) > > This was a huge help for me, but I had to replace the "-i" flag with > "--login" in order to fully replicate my path that I see in Terminal. > I have a few things set in /etc/paths.d (TeX, X11, and git, > specifically),

Re: Moderately off-topic: installing emacs on OSX

2010-12-12 Thread Chris Maier
On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 6:24 AM, Steve Purcell wrote: >> If you have issues with emacs failing to pick up the right executables, > you can use the following nifty trick to ensure Emacs' $PATH matches the > one you've configured for Bash in Terminal: > > (defun set-exec-path-from-shell-PATH () >  (

Re: Moderately off-topic: installing emacs on OSX

2010-12-11 Thread Philip Hudson
+1 to Andy Fingerhut's GNU-via-MacPorts instructions; WFM. I need an exact workalike across Mac, linux and cygwin, which is why I prefer it over the better-integrated Aqua/Carbon/Cocoa alternatives. A big +1 to Phil Hagelberg's make-the-wiki-authoritative call. I can attest to the confusion

Re: Moderately off-topic: installing emacs on OSX

2010-12-10 Thread gaz jones
brew install emacs --cocoa worked pretty well for me. and then my fork of emacs-starter-kit if that is useful to anyone: https://github.com/gar3thjon3s/emacs-starter-kit my default-profile.el has a few settings for making the brew installed emacs work better with os x. by the way thanks for the

Re: Moderately off-topic: installing emacs on OSX

2010-12-10 Thread Mike Meyer
On Sat, 11 Dec 2010 01:07:51 + Alec Battles wrote: > > I don't use OS X so I can't comment on such a consensus, but while I > > appreciate the sentiment, it's actually harmful to some degree to have > > lots of blog posts scattered around everywhere that all have slightly > > different advice

Re: Moderately off-topic: installing emacs on OSX

2010-12-10 Thread Phil Hagelberg
On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 5:07 PM, Alec Battles wrote: >> I strongly suggest improving the docs on the >> Clojure wiki instead; that way errors can be fixed by the community. > > Why does the one preclude the other? > > Also, if people aren't going to blog about Clojure, what future does it have? S

Re: Moderately off-topic: installing emacs on OSX

2010-12-10 Thread Alec Battles
> I don't use OS X so I can't comment on such a consensus, but while I > appreciate the sentiment, it's actually harmful to some degree to have > lots of blog posts scattered around everywhere that all have slightly > different advice, especially since that advice usually becomes > outdated within

Re: Moderately off-topic: installing emacs on OSX

2010-12-10 Thread Phil Hagelberg
On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 11:20 AM, javajosh wrote: > (conflicting advice snipped) > > If we can reach consensus on best (easiest, least error-prone) path to > getting a working emacs clojure environment up on OSX I'll happily > execute and even write up my experience. I don't use OS X so I can't c

Re: Moderately off-topic: installing emacs on OSX

2010-12-10 Thread Steve Purcell
javajosh writes: > (conflicting advice snipped) > > If we can reach consensus on best (easiest, least error-prone) path to > getting a working emacs clojure environment up on OSX I'll happily > execute and even write up my experience. I think there is consensus; the respondents to this thread se

Re: Moderately off-topic: installing emacs on OSX

2010-12-10 Thread javajosh
(conflicting advice snipped) If we can reach consensus on best (easiest, least error-prone) path to getting a working emacs clojure environment up on OSX I'll happily execute and even write up my experience. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" g

Re: Moderately off-topic: installing emacs on OSX

2010-12-10 Thread Steve Purcell
javajosh writes: >> failing to load in the error message and all, I'd try that. > I would still like to see slime in action, however. I have two emacs > installed, GNU and Aquamacs. macports is still not able to do anything > - I'm actually rather concerned about it's health. > > $ emacs --version

Re: Moderately off-topic: installing emacs on OSX

2010-12-09 Thread Andy Fingerhut
Here is a list of steps that should get you to a working Emacs+Clojure SLIME on Mac OS X. I've also used it on Linux (without the MacPorts command, instead using its package manager to install a working GNU emacs). If you don't have many MacPorts programs installed, or don't mind reinsta

Re: Moderately off-topic: installing emacs on OSX

2010-12-09 Thread Ulises
> I would still like to see slime in action, however. I have two emacs > installed, GNU and Aquamacs. macports is still not able to do anything Sorry if this sounds silly but have you tried with carbon emacs? I heard from old time hardcore emacsers that that is the best emacs for OS X (I'm not one

Re: Moderately off-topic: installing emacs on OSX

2010-12-09 Thread javajosh
On Dec 9, 5:41 pm, Alec Battles wrote: > > On Dec 6, 9:16 pm, Phil Hagelberg wrote: > >> On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 9:00 PM, javajosh wrote: > >> > Sorry for asking here, but I think it's at least a little relevant to > >> > Clojure since I for one wouldn't be installing emacs if it wasn't for > >>

Re: Moderately off-topic: installing emacs on OSX

2010-12-09 Thread Alec Battles
> On Dec 6, 9:16 pm, Phil Hagelberg wrote: >> On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 9:00 PM, javajosh wrote: >> > Sorry for asking here, but I think it's at least a little relevant to >> > Clojure since I for one wouldn't be installing emacs if it wasn't for >> > Clojure and Slime. Getting prompts about what th

Re: Moderately off-topic: installing emacs on OSX

2010-12-06 Thread javajosh
On Dec 6, 9:16 pm, Phil Hagelberg wrote: > On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 9:00 PM, javajosh wrote: > > Sorry for asking here, but I think it's at least a little relevant to > > Clojure since I for one wouldn't be installing emacs if it wasn't for > > Clojure and Slime. Getting prompts about what the fu

Re: Moderately off-topic: installing emacs on OSX

2010-12-06 Thread Phil Hagelberg
On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 9:00 PM, javajosh wrote: > Sorry for asking here, but I think it's at least a little relevant to > Clojure since I for one wouldn't be installing emacs if it wasn't for > Clojure and Slime. Getting prompts about what the function arguments > are seems like a HUGE benefit whe