which-key is a fantastic package. The Emacs out-of-the-box experience is getting better, but slowly; this sort of functionality really needs to be in core, automatically active.
Phil Chris Shellenbarger <chris.shellenbar...@gmail.com> writes: > I found them useful for getting the repl to run - after following these > instructions I was able to run 'cider-jack-in' and get to a repl that > worked the same was as the one I had been using in Cursive. > > They also pointed me to a couple of suggested packages to install, in which > whichkey was one. > > However, with a running REPL, I had no idea what to do - I was consulting > cheat sheets for things I knew I wanted to do, but did not have a clear way > to discover all the options available to me. That's when I turned to the > CftBT book and his configuration because at least I could see what a > Clojure Developer was using. Installing whichkey and whatever package > allows the search for functions was incredibly helpful (which inspired the > original post). > > What I feel is missing from a lot of the Clojure world is documentation on > how the real professional Clojure developers are working from a day to day > perspective. This includes any that work in Emacs/CIDER - how are they > working more productively than we can in Cursive or another IDE? With the > tools I mention in my post, I can see how you can get started down that > path. > > As far as the CIDER docs go, I think a huge way to increase their utility > would be to provide an example Emacs configuration so that people can just > download it and get up and running within a context that can be discussed > in the documentation. I'm sure people have these configurations running - > you can use the ones that I put up as well. > > > On Sunday, March 4, 2018 at 7:13:37 AM UTC-6, Bozhidar Batsov wrote: >> >> Btw, didn't you find the instructions in the official manual useful ( >> http://cider.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installation/ and >> http://cider.readthedocs.io/en/latest/up_and_running/). Admitted they are >> not great, but they do cover a lot of ground and are reasonably up-to-date. >> >> On 3 March 2018 at 23:11, Chris Shellenbarger <ch...@cloudrepo.io >> <javascript:>> wrote: >> >>> I spent the last week learning and using Emacs and CIDER for Clojure >>> Development. >>> >>> I've started to write up a lot of the lessons I've learned from doing so >>> in the hopes that it will help some other people who attempt something >>> similar. >>> >>> Anyway, if you're interested in getting started with Emacs and CIDER, >>> you'll have to learn about how to use the keyboard so I wrote a couple of >>> key lessons in a Medium post: Developing in Clojure with Emacs: >>> Mastering the Keyboard >>> <https://medium.com/@chris.shellenbarger/developing-in-clojure-with-emacs-mastering-the-keyboard-6cb9bef7f760> >>> . >>> >>> My environment was Emacs 24.5.1 with CIDER 0.16.0 on Linux Mint 18.3. >>> >>> I used the Clojure for the Brave and True <https://www.braveclojure.co> >>> book >>> for a basic intro into Emacs <https://www.braveclojure.com/basic-emacs/> >>> and >>> used the provided emacs configuration files as a starting point. However, >>> these only worked with CIDER 0.8.0 and were about four years old. I made >>> some modifications of the files to work with CIDER 0.16.0 and put them up >>> for anyone to use on my BitBucket Repository >>> <https://bitbucket.org/64BitChris/linux-emacs-configuration>. >>> >>> I have a lot more to share about my Emacs experience, but I found that >>> there was so much that I had to split it into multiple posts. >>> >>> Hope it helps someone out there! >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "Clojure" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to clo...@googlegroups.com >>> <javascript:> >>> Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with >>> your first post. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> clojure+u...@googlegroups.com <javascript:> >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en >>> --- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "Clojure" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to clojure+u...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> >> -- Phillip Lord, Phone: +44 (0) 191 208 7827 Biology, Medicine, Computing Email: phillip.l...@newcastle.ac.uk School of Computing, http://homepages.cs.ncl.ac.uk/phillip.lord Room 5.012 Urban Sciences Building, skype: russet_apples Newcastle University, twitter: phillord NE4 5TG -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. 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