i highly recommend taking a look at Phil Hagelberg's emacs-starter-kit : https://github.com/technomancy/emacs-starter-kit.git
it helped me a LOT when getting started with emacs in general, and emacs and clojure together. i also put together a couple of blog posts on my experience of using it which might be useful for you: http://blog.gaz-jones.com/post/2486737162/setting-up-clojure-development-on-osx-using-emacs-and http://blog.gaz-jones.com/post/2501842155/interactive-clojure-development-in-emacs-with-leiningen gaz On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 5:13 AM, John V <johnv02...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, I would like to have syntax highlighting for Clojure code in > Emacs. I am using Emacs on Windows (23.2.1). I found this page: > > http://dev.clojure.org/display/doc/Getting+Started+with+Emacs > > ... but it was clearly much more involved than I was looking for. > Nevertheless, I downloaded package.el, loaded it, set the location for > "marmalade", and gave it a shot, but as expected, it didn't work. It > said, "Failed to download 'gnu' archive." > > I would like to use Emacs as a text editor, not as a combination IDE/ > ftp browser. Is there a clojure mode written which is simple to > download and use? > > I used ILISP for many years, and I've encountered SLIME when I was > using SBCL, but never got it working properly on Windows. I know how > cool and powerful an integrated environment like ILISP can be, but > also how buggy it can be, and at the moment, I just don't think it's > worth the effort to get it working. For now, I prefer to run Clojure > in a Command Prompt, and use Emacs solely as a text editor. > > Thanks very much for any advice. > > -- > 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