/clojure-mode

Emacs support for the Clojure language

Primary LanguageEmacs Lisp

Clojure Mode

Provides Emacs font-lock, indentation, and navigation for the Clojure language.

Installation

Available on the Marmalade repo.

If you're not already using Marmalade, add this to your ~/.emacs.d/init.el and load it with M-x eval-buffer.

(require 'package)
(add-to-list 'package-archives
             '("marmalade" . "http://marmalade-repo.org/packages/"))
(package-initialize)

And then you can install:

M-x package-install [RET] clojure-mode [RET]

or

(when (not (package-installed-p 'clojure-mode))
  (package-install 'clojure-mode))

On Emacs 23 you will need to get package.el yourself or install manually by placing clojure-mode.el on your load-path and requireing it.

Clojure Test Mode

This source repository also includes clojure-test-mode.el, which provides support for running Clojure tests (using the clojure.test framework) via nrepl.el or SLIME and seeing feedback in the test buffer about which tests failed or errored. The installation instructions above should work for clojure-test-mode as well. (nrepl.el support is still in progress.)

Once you have a repl session active, you can run the tests in the current buffer with C-c C-,. Failing tests and errors will be highlighted using overlays. To clear the overlays, use C-c k.

You can jump between implementation and test files with C-c t if your project is laid out in a way that clojure-test-mode expects. Your project root should have a src/ directory containing files that correspond to their namespace. It should also have a test/ directory containing files that correspond to their namespace, and the test namespaces should mirror the implementation namespaces with the addition of "test" as the second-to-last segment of the namespace.

So my.project.frob would be found in src/my/project/frob.clj and its tests would be in test/my/project/test/frob.clj in the my.project.test.frob namespace.

Paredit

Using clojure-mode with paredit is highly recommended. It is also available using package.el from the above archive.

Use paredit as you normally would with any other mode; for instance:

;; (require 'paredit) if you didn't install via package.el
(defun turn-on-paredit () (paredit-mode 1))
(add-hook 'clojure-mode-hook 'turn-on-paredit)

See the cheat sheet for paredit usage hints.

REPL Interaction

A number of options exist for connecting to a running Clojure process and evaluating code interactively.

Basic REPL

Use M-x run-lisp to open a simple REPL subprocess using Leiningen. Once that has opened, you can use C-c C-r to evaluate the region or C-c C-l to load the whole file.

If you don't use Leiningen, you can set inferior-lisp-program to a different REPL command.

nrepl.el

You can also use Leiningen to start an enhanced REPL via nrepl.el.

Ritz

Another option is Ritz, which is a bit more complicated but offers advanced debugging functionality using SLIME.

Swank Clojure

SLIME is also available via swank-clojure, though it is no longer actively maintained.

License

Copyright © 2007-2012 Jeffrey Chu, Lennart Staflin, Phil Hagelberg, and contributors.

Distributed under the GNU General Public License; see C-h t to view.