One of the best and most enjoyable ways to get started with Clojure, very well done. The part on setting up emacs was hugely helpful for a VI guy for me who's mucked around with other Lisp editor plugins.
How do you feel about developing Clojure in Emacs, as a Vi guy?
I'm also more at home in Vi, but I ended up going with Cursive when I began learning Clojure (and I highly recommend it), but I've always been curious about the Emacs option.
It's an emacs configuration meant to be a hybrid of the best in emacs and vim. I'm a vim user of several years, and am just beginning to do some clojure development of my own, so I recently made the switch.
There's definitely a learning curve, but it's much, much less involved then learning either emacs or vim on their own. And you get to keep the vim editing style.
A couple of things to get used to:
- Space for the leader (it's actually great).
- Escape mostly stops things, but not always. Ctrl-g is a safer option.
- q closes many popup windows.
- Using lisp to do everything in the config file (.spacemacs)
The docs are a good place to start. Also C-h will bring up an extensive help menu.
You'll want to add the clojure layer to your .spacemacs, as one of the dotspacemacs-configuration-layers.
I don't use it everyday, as Clojure is just a side hobby for me. I had tried LightTable and another dedicated lisp editor but at the end I just embraced Emacs instead of fighting it. I'm still a novice, and I struggle between a cheat sheet, but I figure it's such a rich environment for Lisp that I wouldn't be limited by it as I grew. So my philosophy has been, when in Lisp land, do as the Lisp people do...
That said a friend of mine recommended some promising vi plugins which look quite good.
