Clojure Emacs Setup

It's basic ~100 lines user friendly setup for Emacs beginners which provides comfortable Clojure development environment.

This is a clone which is basically identical from the original but integrates Solarized as default theme

Plugins

• Clojure mode
• Paredit
• Parentheses Highlighting (with RainbowDelimiters)
• NREPL
• Auto Completion
• Lisp Indentation
• Textmate mode
• Solarized Theme (Default)
• Tomorrow Theme

Off by deafult

• Line numbers
• Relative line numbers
• Vim-mode
• Whitespaces cleaning
• Tomorrow Theme

Installation

1. Download Emacs
2. Emacs for MacOS
3. Linux
4. Windows
5. git clone git@github.com:edtsech/clojure-emacs-setup.git ~/.emacs.d

Usage

Emacs basics

• C-x C-f - "find" file i.e. open/create a file in buffer
• C-x b - create/switch buffers
• C-x C-b - show buffer list
• C-x k - kill buffer
• C-x 2 - split window horizontally
• C-x 3 - split window vertically
• C-x 0 - close current window(split)

Full Emacs Command List

Plugins

Paredit

1. C-<right> (def) a -> (def a)
2. C-<left> (def a) -> (def) a

Paredit Cheetsheet

Auto completion

Just use tab key.

NREPL

M - is meta key, can be redefined, but usually its Alt key

1. C-c M-j or M-x nrepl-jack-in - connect to nREPL
2. C-M-x - evaluate the top level form
3. M-. - jump to the definition of a symbol
4. M-, - return to your pre-jump location

NREPL Keyboard shortcuts

Textmate mode

1. ⌘t - go to file
2. ⌘l - go to line
3. ⌘/ - comment line

Textmate mode README

Customize

Indentation

;; Set Compojure indentation
;; (put <macro|function> 'clojure-backtracking-indent '(<indent-first-arg> <indent-second-arg> ...)
(put 'GET 'clojure-backtracking-indent '(2 2 2))
(put 'POST 'clojure-backtracking-indent '(2 2 2))
(put 'PUT 'clojure-backtracking-indent '(2 2 2))
(put 'DELETE 'clojure-backtracking-indent '(2 2 2))
(put 'PATCH 'clojure-backtracking-indent '(2 2 2))

Improvements

If you have some ideas how to improve the setup, I'm happy to participate. And if you need some help or you have a problem ping me on twitter(@edtsech) or send me an email.

Setups for other editors

• SublimeText
• Vim ???

Thomas Cremers is a freelance (software developer at http://vicinitysoftware.com)