Emacs

Getting Started

If you don't know Emacs, you may want to pick one of the choices above. The learning curve here is steep.

• Make sure you have Java installed.
• Make sure you have leiningen installed.
• Clone the labrepl project and change directory into it.
• Run lein deps to install all the dependent libraries.
• If they exist, move your .emacs and .emacs.d out of the way.
• Create the .emacs.d directory and download the Emacs Starter Kit:
  • mkdir ~/.emacs.d
  • cd ~/.emacs.d
  • git clone http://github.com/technomancy/emacs-starter-kit.git
• Launch Emacs with the starter kit emacs -l ~/.emacs.d/emacs-starter-kit/init.el
• Within Emacs run ELPA M-x package-list-packages, go to the following packages and press i to select:
  • clojure-mode
  • slime
  • swank-clojure
• Once the three packages are selected press x to install them. Close Emacs when the installation completes.
• From a terminal in the labrepl directory run the swank process: script/swank
• Run Emacs again emacs -l ~/.emacs.d/emacs-starter-kit/init.el
• Connect to the running clojure image M-x slime-connect accepting the defaults.