Thanks Sam, that was very detailed and helpful. I've installed Emacs 24.0.7 and Emacs Live. It's not a smooth experience though - I don't know whether this is due to the Emacs version or something else.
For one, it doesn't play very well with the OS windowing system. When I click on Emacs it doesn't always change the window focus from the previous app to Emacs. Secondly, when I type several commands in succession quickly, a smallish white square keeps flashing in the middle of the Emacs screen, then disappears. Thirdly, when I try M-x slime I get: "Searching for program: no such file or directory, lisp". (I have installed Leiningen2). Quite frustrating that an editor takes so much tinkering to just set up properly. Cheers, James On May 27, 11:14 pm, Sam Aaron <samaa...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sunday, 27 May 2012 at 17:48, James wrote: > > Hi Sam, Emacs Live looks seriously cool, > > wonderful! Thanks for the kind words > > > however I have doubts about this: > > > "Emacs live has only been tested with a terminal hosted Emacs > > 24.1.50.2 (pre-release). Issues and pull-requests for this and later > > versions will be happily accepted." > > > This version isn't stable, should I go ahead and install it instead of > > the one I have (23.4)? > > I only write that because that's the version I use and I've got no real drive > to maintain Emacs Live for all versions of Emacs. However, it *should* work > with Emacs 23, and I'll be happy to help out by answering questions if there > are issues, but it's nothing I'm going to actively work on to ensure > compatibility. > > TL;DR My Emacs setup: > > If you're interested, I happen to run a terminal hosted Emacs which I > installed via homebrew: > > brew install emacs --use-git-head --HEAD > > Also, I run Emacs as a server and then connect to it via emacsclient. This > allows me to use Emacs as a commit editor when I use the git command on the > console. For example: > > git commit -v > > will open up Emacs as the editor to write the commit message and to also view > the diff. If I wasn't running Emacs as a server, then this would have to load > up a new Emacs instance which isn't the speediest thing in the world. With a > server already running, it's as fast as vim to load up :-) > > To run Emacs as a server you need to pass the daemon flag: > > /usr/local/bin/emacs --daemon > > I then alias emacsclient to emacs in my zsh profile: > > alias emacs="/usr/local/bin/emacsclient -ct" > > Now, if you want to edit a specific file, you can type: > > emacs foo.clj > > and it will open up via emacsclient in an instant. > > In order to use the emacsclient as a shell editor for tools like git, you > need to bind emacsclient to the EDITOR variable: > > export EDITOR='emacsclient -ct' > > Hope this helps, > > Sam > > --http://sam.aaron.name -- 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
