Re: Setting up Emacs to edit Clojure for Windows folks

2012-01-27 Thread Rick Hall
Cedric, I agree that the other editors are simpler to set up, though probably not by as wide a margin as your set of instructions might suggest. If you just look at the bold headings in my post, the instructions are: 1. Install JDK 2. Install Leiningen 3. Install Emacs 4. Install Clojure mode

Re: Setting up Emacs to edit Clojure for Windows folks

2012-01-25 Thread nchurch
Cedric, you should append this to "The Unix-Hater's Handbook"I'm not providing a link because I'm sure you already know it! ---Fellow Unix-hater, and Mac OS user (add flame suppressor here) On Jan 25, 10:21 pm, Cedric Greevey wrote: > On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 12:25 AM, Sean Corfield > wrote

Re: Setting up Emacs to edit Clojure for Windows folks

2012-01-25 Thread Sean Corfield
On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 10:21 PM, Cedric Greevey wrote: > I guess you're talking about a different kind of usability than I am. Like I said: "I'm sure we'll just agree to disagree on this one..." > On the other hand, there's "setup for the typical configuration is > point, click, reboot, done

Re: Setting up Emacs to edit Clojure for Windows folks

2012-01-25 Thread Cedric Greevey
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 12:25 AM, Sean Corfield wrote: > On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 9:18 PM, Cedric Greevey wrote: >> In other words, "ported software setup sucks!"? :) > > That's not the conclusion I would have drawn... ;) > >> Rather ironic, when the tendency, at least historically, has been for >

Re: Setting up Emacs to edit Clojure for Windows folks

2012-01-25 Thread Sean Corfield
On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 9:18 PM, Cedric Greevey wrote: > In other words, "ported software setup sucks!"? :) That's not the conclusion I would have drawn... ;) > Rather ironic, when the tendency, at least historically, has been for > Windows (and Mac) to have superior usability when it comes to n

Re: Setting up Emacs to edit Clojure for Windows folks

2012-01-25 Thread Cedric Greevey
On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 10:51 PM, Sean Corfield wrote: > On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 4:55 PM, Cedric Greevey wrote: >> This isn't, by the way, to say that "emacs sucks!". It's more "emacs >> setup sucks!" with perhaps a dash of "ported software sucks!" > > Well, it's certainly a truism that *nix-base

Re: Setting up Emacs to edit Clojure for Windows folks

2012-01-25 Thread Sean Corfield
On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 4:55 PM, Cedric Greevey wrote: > This isn't, by the way, to say that "emacs sucks!". It's more "emacs > setup sucks!" with perhaps a dash of "ported software sucks!" Well, it's certainly a truism that *nix-based software is harder to setup on Windows than on Mac/Linux. I

Re: Setting up Emacs to edit Clojure for Windows folks

2012-01-25 Thread Lars Nilsson
Assuming people attempting to use Emacs for Clojure are not adverse to mucking around with Emacs init files... Also given are clojure-mode.el in the .emacs.d directory, lein in PATH. (add-to-list 'load-path (expand-file-name ".emacs.d" "~")) (autoload 'clojure-mode "clojure-mode" "A major mode fo

Re: Setting up Emacs to edit Clojure for Windows folks

2012-01-25 Thread Roberto Mannai
My notes about installing Emacs 24 on Windows 7, with clojure support: http://sourceforge.net/apps/wordpress/codesounding/2011/09/29/installing-emacs-24-and-clojure-mode-on-windows-7-step-by-step/ On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 11:40 PM, Sean Corfield wrote: > > http://corfield.org/articles/emacs_win.ht

Re: Setting up Emacs to edit Clojure for Windows folks

2012-01-25 Thread Cedric Greevey
I think it may be worth noting the size and complexity of that blog post in contrast to these: Netbeans setup on Windows: 1. Download Netbeans+JDK from the options at the Netbeans site. 2. Run installer. 3. Run Netbeans. 4. Browse in its built-in plugin-browser for Enclojure and install that. 5.

Re: Setting up Emacs to edit Clojure for Windows folks

2012-01-25 Thread Sean Corfield
On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 11:59 AM, Rick Hall wrote: > For anyone who needs the help, the post is here: > http://onbeyondlambda.blogspot.com/2012/01/setting-up-clojure-emacs-on-windows.html Thanx Rick. I started down a similar path and got these instruction pulled together: http://corfield.org/art

Re: Setting up Emacs to edit Clojure for Windows folks

2012-01-25 Thread daly
On Wed, 2012-01-25 at 11:59 -0800, Rick Hall wrote: > I tried to set up a development environment for Clojure on a Windows > box. As you all know there are lots of editors available and multiple > ways of setting up each editor. There are also several versions of > instructions as the process has

Re: Setting up Emacs to edit Clojure for Windows folks

2012-01-25 Thread Phil Hagelberg
Rick Hall writes: > I have written a blog post that shows how to install the jdk, > leigingen, emacs, clojure-mode and slime. The level of detail in some > places may seem excessive, but given the amount of time it took me to > comprehend instructions like: from within a project insert M-x cloju