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clojure-mode
Emacs Lisp2012–2012
clojure-emacs / clojure-mode
clojure-mode
Emacs support for the Clojure(Script) programming language
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3Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
1KGitHub stars
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What it is
Emacs support for the Clojure(Script) programming language
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Where it is used
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- technomancy/leiningen · linked in 2 of the same discussions
Mentioned in the same Hacker News threads. That is not proof they are substitutes.
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HN mentions by week3 dated mentions
Observed mentions: 2012-07-10 10:43:24 UTC to 2012-12-30 09:12:05 UTC. Weeks start Monday, UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| Jul 9 | 2012-07-09 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-07-16 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Jul 16 | 2012-07-16 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-07-23 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 23 | 2012-07-23 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-07-30 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 30 | 2012-07-30 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-08-06 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 6 | 2012-08-06 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-08-13 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Aug 13 | 2012-08-13 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-08-20 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 20 | 2012-08-20 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-08-27 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 27 | 2012-08-27 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-09-03 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 3 | 2012-09-03 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-09-10 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 10 | 2012-09-10 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-09-17 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 17 | 2012-09-17 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-09-24 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 24 | 2012-09-24 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 1 | 2012-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-10-08 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 8 | 2012-10-08 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-10-15 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 15 | 2012-10-15 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-10-22 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 22 | 2012-10-22 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-10-29 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 29 | 2012-10-29 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-11-05 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 5 | 2012-11-05 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-11-12 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 12 | 2012-11-12 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-11-19 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 19 | 2012-11-19 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-11-26 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 26 | 2012-11-26 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-12-03 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 3 | 2012-12-03 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-12-10 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 10 | 2012-12-10 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-12-17 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 17 | 2012-12-17 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-12-24 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 24 | 2012-12-24 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-12-31 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
What Hacker News says
3 sources> having on-demand online docs for any clojar or github repository would go a long way.
How so? Isn't GitHub already its own on-demand online docs service?
https://github.com/technomancy/leiningen/tree/master/doc
https://github.com/technomancy/clojure-mode/blob/master/doc/...
In Results of the 2012 State of Clojure surveyIt was some time ago (8 months or so). I remember googling around and finding different approaches to setting up the tool chain. The notes I kept on some of the steps I tried to get Clojure working on emacs included the following (not the whole list of commands):
Setting up Clojure
Followed the gist of http://riddell.us/ClojureSwankLeiningenWithEmacsOnLinux.html (no longer existing)
The first time, invoking 'mvn2 install' to build clojure-contrib jar failed. Later, after cleaning up Java, it worked.
Java was already installed, so I apt-get installed ant and maven2
~$ git clone git://github.com/clojure/clojure.git
~$ git clone git://github.com/clojure/clojure-contrib.git
~$ mvn install
Copy jline-0.0.94.jar
Create a bash script called clj to start clojure with these commands:
#!/bin/sh
# without jline
#java -cp "$CLOJURE_HO
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ME/clojure-1.3.0.jar" clojure.main "$@"
# with jline
java -cp "$CLOJURE_HOME/jline-0.9.94.jar:$CLOJURE_HOME/clojure-1.4.0.jar" jline.ConsoleRunner clojure.main
Running clj in the terminal worked, with the repl functioning as expected.
For emacs:
~$ sudo apt-get install emacs-snapshot-gtk
SLIME, clojure-mode and leiningen
git clone git://github.com/nablaone/slime.git
git clone git://github.com/technomancy/clojure-mode.git
~$ wget --no-check-certificate http://github.com/technomancy/leiningen/raw/stable/bin/lein
Execute the leiningen script
~$ chmod +x lein
~$ ./lein self-install
For some reason, this didn't work in emacs and I opted instead to run Clojure in jEdit. It worked but I didn't quite like the jEdit look and feel. Anyway, the long and the short of it was I played with Clojure mainly in jEdit for a while.
As you said, the setup process was not well documented at that time and it was quite frustrating. I'm sure it's better now. I'm going to play with Clojure in Light Table again, and if it excites me, I'll have another go at a full Clojure install.