Hey Lee, I made a quick getting started video for IntelliJ and La Clojure that covers all the steps:
http://gregslepak.posterous.com/clojure-development-with-intellijs-la-clojure Hope it's helpful! - Greg On Jun 29, 2010, at 8:28 AM, Lee Spector wrote: > > On Jun 28, 2010, at 5:31 PM, Greg wrote: >> Have you tried IntelliJ with the La Clojure plugin? I tried all 3 IDEs and I >> was most impressed with IntelliJ IDEA. It's not too difficult to setup, and >> once you do it's really nice and has I think all of the stuff you asked >> about (syntax coloring, auto-completion, doc access, etc.). > > > Thanks for the recommendation. Somehow I had overlooked this one previously. > > I just downloaded and installed it, installed the Plugin (a little weird that > there's no "Download and Install" button when you select the plugin, and you > have to know to right-click, but the assembla instructions told me I'd have > to right click it was okay), but then what? > > The assembla instructions > (http://www.assembla.com/wiki/show/clojure/Getting_Started_with_Idea_and_La_Clojure) > have a section for "To checkout a project from git" and a section for "To > open an existing maven-based project", but I don't want to do either. I want > to write and run some Clojure code from scratch. I'd like a REPL and an > editor buffer or two... > > Starting from Create New Project I clicked through a bunch of dialogs that I > didn't understand, said okay to a warning about not assigning a JDK (because > I didn't know what else to do there), and eventually got what looks like a > project window but not (as far as I see) an editor buffer or a REPL. > > Returning to the assembla instructions I saw (both in the git section and in > the maven section) "Choose Tools|Clojure REPL|Add new Clojure REPL to launch > a REPL on your project." So I tried this but got "Can't creat REPL. Clojure > home path is not configured correctly!" > > It's possible that this is the environment that I'm looking for, but my new > user experience is not going very well at this point. > > Any pointers would be appreciated. > > Thanks, > > -Lee > > -- > Lee Spector, Professor of Computer Science > School of Cognitive Science, Hampshire College > 893 West Street, Amherst, MA 01002-3359 > lspec...@hampshire.edu, http://hampshire.edu/lspector/ > Phone: 413-559-5352, Fax: 413-559-5438 > > Check out Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines: > http://www.springer.com/10710 - http://gpemjournal.blogspot.com/ > > -- > 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 -- 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