Hey James, feedback like this is invaluable - thanks very much for taking the time to write it.
It is true - using Emacs is *not* a smooth experience. I've tried to bake in a good number of years experience getting Emacs to work smoothly into Emacs Live, and whilst I don't claim it to be 'smooth' I still think it's a lot better than the vanilla experience. Let me address your points individually: > 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. I've never seen or heard of this before. Do you get this behaviour with a vanilla Emacs (i.e. not using the Emacs Live config)? > > Secondly, when I type several commands in succession quickly, a > smallish white square keeps flashing in the middle of the Emacs > screen, then disappears. That smallish white square is the 'visual bell'. It comes up when Emacs wishes to communicate that something isn't quite right. As a temporary measure, try adding this to the end of ~/.emacs.d/init.el (setq ring-bell-function 'ignore) and let me know if that fixes things for you > Thirdly, when I try M-x slime I get: "Searching for program: no such > file or directory, lisp". (I have installed Leiningen2). This is because you need to start a separate swank server and connect to it with slime. See: https://github.com/overtone/emacs-live#clojure-hacking > > Quite frustrating that an editor takes so much tinkering to just set > up properly. Just try to imagine the power you'll wield when you do get it working properly :-) I have found the experience definitely worthwhile. 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
