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 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en To unsubscribe, reply using "remove me" as the subject.