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

Setting up Emacs to edit Clojure for Windows folks

2012-01-25 Thread Rick Hall
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 changed over time. I have virtually never ventured out of