I stubbornly refuse to use ELPA. I keep my ~/.emacs and associated
libraries in Git[1][2] and don't like deviating from that with ELPA by
running the clojure code from an unversioned directory that isn't
automatically there when I set up my Emacs configuration from Git.

I couldn't find any documentation for setting up Emacs + Clojure +
Swank without ELPA. What follows are the steps I had to do to get my
setup working so that I can use both SBCL and Clojure with SLIME.

First checkout the needed clojure code into my ~/g/elisp library:

    git submodule add git://github.com/technomancy/slime.git slime
    git submodule add git://github.com/technomancy/clojure-mode.git clojure-mode
    git submodule add git://github.com/jochu/swank-clojure.git swank-clojure
    git submodule add git://github.com/richhickey/clojure.git clojure
    git submodule add git://github.com/richhickey/clojure-contrib.git clojure

Build clojure:

    cd clojure && ant
    cd clojure-contrib && mvn package

Add this in my ~/.emacs to load the libraries:

    (add-to-list 'load-path "~/g/elisp/clojure-mode")
    (add-to-list 'load-path "~/g/elisp/swank-clojure")
    (add-to-list 'load-path "~/g/elisp/slime")
    (add-to-list 'load-path "~/g/elisp/slime/contrib")

Add autoloads + massive hack to get all of this to work:

    (autoload 'clojure-mode "clojure-mode" nil t)
    (autoload 'clojure-test-mode "clojure-test-mode" nil t)
    (defvar package-activated-list nil "Hack: used in
`slime-changelog-date' but not defined anywhere")
    (progn
      (autoload 'swank-clojure-init "swank-clojure")
      (autoload 'swank-clojure-slime-mode-hook "swank-clojure")
      (autoload 'swank-clojure-cmd "swank-clojure")
      (autoload 'swank-clojure-project "swank-clojure"))

    (setq clojure-src-root (expand-file-name "~/g/elisp"))

    ;; Java starves programs by default
    (setq swank-clojure-extra-vm-args (list "-Xmx1024m"))

This part is very suboptimal, it would be nice if swank-clojure had
better support for running out-of-Git so I wouldn't have to do
this. Maybe it does and I haven't found the relevant bits:

    (defun clojure-slime-config (&optional src-root)
      "Hacky copy of slime-clojure's `clojure-slime-config' to do what I want."

      (if src-root (setq clojure-src-root src-root))

      (add-to-list 'load-path (concat clojure-src-root "/slime"))
      (add-to-list 'load-path (concat clojure-src-root "/slime/contrib"))
      (add-to-list 'load-path (concat clojure-src-root "/swank-clojure"))

      (require 'slime-autoloads)

      (slime-setup '(slime-fancy))

      (setq swank-clojure-classpath
            (list
             (concat clojure-src-root "/clojure/clojure.jar")
             ;; Hack: Expand the name of the .jar with some Emacs glob function
             (concat clojure-src-root
"/clojure-contrib/target/clojure-contrib-1.2.0-SNAPSHOT.jar")
             (concat clojure-src-root "/swank-clojure/src")
             (concat clojure-src-root "/clojure/test/clojure/test_clojure")))
      (eval-after-load 'slime
        '(progn (require 'swank-clojure)
                (setq slime-lisp-implementations
                      (cons `(clojure ,(swank-clojure-cmd) :init
                                      swank-clojure-init)
                            (remove-if #'(lambda (x) (eq (car x) 'clojure))
                                       slime-lisp-implementations))))))

    ;;; Setup clojure
    (clojure-slime-config)


Finally set it up to play nice so that I can do M-x run-sbcl or M-x
run-clojure to run Common Lisp or Clojure:

    ;; 
http://groups.google.com/group/clojure/browse_thread/thread/e70ac373b47d7088
    (eval-after-load 'slime
      '(progn
         (add-to-list 'slime-lisp-implementations
                      '(sbcl ("/usr/bin/sbcl")))))

    (defun pre-slime ()
      "Stuff to do before SLIME runs"
      (clojure-slime-config)
      (slime-setup))

    (defun run-clojure ()
      "Starts clojure in Slime"
      (interactive)
      (pre-slime)
      (slime 'clojure))

    (defun run-sbcl ()
      "Starts SBCL in Slime"
      (interactive)
      (pre-slime)
      (slime 'sbcl))

Of course all of this was such a pain that I pretty much stopped there
and haven't actually /done/ anything with clojure aside from a Hello
World :)


1. http://github.com/avar/dotemacs
2. http://github.com/avar/elisp

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