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Collection of resources on setting up Emacs as a development environment for Clojure.
Since the methods preferred in the Clojure-community is in constant flux - some (most) descriptions collected here may be outdated (but may still be working).

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• The Common Lisp Cookbook - Using Emacs as a Lisp IDE
  
  
• in which are found tricks of the trade concerning clojure authorship
  

Setting up

SLIME

modes

clojure-mode

• https://github.com/technomancy/clojure-mode
  
  
• http://clojure.codestuffs.com/
  • alternative link: http://github.com/jochu - Clojure-mode for Emacs (and more)
  
  
• clojure-mode survey

install/update

• ELPA
  • M-x package-list-packages
    • clojure-mode: i x

paredit

• http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ParEdit

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• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2285437/a-gentle-tutorial-to-emacs-swank-paredit-for-clojure
  • http://p.hagelb.org/paredit-outline

install/update

• ELPA
  • M-x package-list-packages
    • paredit: i x

M-x slime

• do as http://www.skamphausen.de/cgi-bin/ska/My_Clojure_Setup says for post-processing .emacs
  • then do M-x slime - this will install Clojure
• also helpful is in which are found tricks of the trade concerning clojure authorship - instead of installing clojure-mode via ELPA, install swank-clojure, though. (see kamphausen)
  
• http://thoughtadventures.blogspot.com/2010/01/setting-up-clojure-repl-with-emacs-and.html - crisp
  
  
• http://www.bestinclass.dk/index.php/2009/12/clojure-101-getting-clojure-slime-installed/ - clip
  
  
• http://measuringmeasures.blogspot.com/2010/01/my-new-clojure-emacs-setup.html

install/update

This is the setup I am currently using (as of 20110518)

• http://technomancy.us/149
  • Install clojure-mode via git or marmalade-repo.org
  • lein plugin install swank-clojure 1.3.1
  • Invoke M-x clojure-jack-in from a project

This is the setup I was using (as of 20100105)

• ELPA
  • M-x package-list-packages
    • swank-clojure: i x
• Restart emacs
• M-x slime
  • downloads/installs dependencies

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Debugging with SLIME

• http://georgejahad.com/clojure/swank-cdt.html
  
• Workflow troubles - exceptions in other threads