tl;dr Is anyone working on a Clojure-Specific Emacs Environment? If considered but dismissed, then why?
---- I've just reviewed a thread about nREPL. The thread also (somewhat indirectly) calls into question the current practice of piggy-backing on SLIME: "About a networked REPL..." https://groups.google.com/d/topic/clojure/iyqFHXkO0Mw/discussion I also see a GSoC project, http://dev.clojure.org/display/community/Google+Summer+of+Code+2012#GoogleSummerofCode2012-EmacsIDE (I realize that this project's existence is probably my answer, but I thought I'd check anyway.) And lastly, this design page, http://dev.clojure.org/display/design/IDE+tooling+backend There also seems to be no shortage of (revised/deprecated) howto's and confusion regarding Emacs and SLIME. I can't help but think that this is at least in part due to SLIME's release process and the various ways that Clojure is not Common Lisp. There also appears to have been some back and forth on the slime-devel list that may exemplify this. In any case, the fact remains that I still can't get the workaround to work as smoothly as I'd like (for both an old and new installation of SLIME): https://github.com/technomancy/swank-clojure/issues/66 (I can switch once between CL and Clojure, but then I get errors.) While it may make sense to just fix the issues with maintaining multiple versions of SLIME, all the facts seem to point towards a Clojure-Specific Emacs Environment. That said, there's certainly been a lot of work that's gone into swank-clojure, clojure-mode, and clojure-test-mode so I can understand the queasiness involved with a rewrite. Also, I imagine that the CL part of the community is quite small. However, I'd also like to use swank-js with a newer SLIME than currently works with clojure-mode as it appears to be the best REPL integration for Javascript. I imagine that the Javascript part of the Clojure community is quite a bit larger (although the Emacs+desire+for+REPL constraint certainly restricts that amount). Finally, we get to the point. Tool development is essential. And right now my tools are becoming clojure-mode and things like kibit, slamhound, swank-js, SLIME, and redshank. I've tried to understand SLIME's implementation a few times already. At this point, I need to be able to improve Clojure related tools a lot more than CL ones. If I can defer understanding SLIME, the more the better. Lastly, I expect a rewrite could stay relatively clean given that quite a bit of work can be pushed into nREPL related tooling...where we can write in Clojure! -- 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
