I am trying to get Slime to work with CDT and emacs 24, to no avail, and I will be grateful for the suggestions.
1) I got clojure-jack-in to run, but only when I downloaded swank-clojure 1.3.3 as a lein plugin, as described on the github swank-clojure page, https://github.com/technomancy/swank-clojure .
2) I tried to get swank-clojure 1.4.0-SNAPSHOT loaded as described by George Jahad at http://georgejahad.com/clojure/swank-cdt.html (using Clojure 1.2.1), but I could not execute clojure -jack-in to run. I got the same error as described in 3) below.
3) More recently, I tried to duplicate the results of a short video with a proof of concept on the technomancy.us website, in which there is a “radical simplification”, http://technomancy.us/149 . In this method, I downloaded swank-clojure 1.4.0-SNAPSHOT as the lein plugin and confirmed that it was loaded before ~/.lein/plugins/swank-clojure-1.4.0-SNAPSHOT.jar . When I created a new lein project, made lein deps on it, opened the core.clj file of the project in emacs, and then executed Mx clojure-jack-in , instead of getting REPL, I got the following error in the emacs minibuffer:
error in process filter: Search failed: "(run-hooks 'slime-load-hook) ; on port"
Note that the end of the error line does not include the port number. If this does not truncate the longer error line, the lack of a port number makes me difficult.
The *swank* buffer is long, starting from:
;;; Bootstrapping bundled version of SLIME; please wait...
and ending with:
(provide 'slime-repl) ;;; slime-repl.el ends here (run-hooks 'slime-load-hook) ;;; proceed to jack in
which is consistent with the error message.
I spent about six hours on this, including many searches on the Internet, and no luck. Thanks for any help you can provide.
ADD: I continued to experiment, and now the *swank* buffer ends as before (dies in one place), but with extra lines at the end. FYI, here it is:
(provide 'slime-repl) ;;; slime-repl.el ends here (run-hooks 'slime-load-hook) [WARNING] Overriding profile: 'null' (source: pom) with new instance from source: pom [WARNING] Overriding profile: 'null' (source: pom) with new instance from source: pom [WARNING] Overriding profile: 'null' (source: pom) with new instance from source: pom Downloading: org/clojure/clojure/1.+/clojure-1.+.pom from repository clojars at http://clojars.org/repo/ Unable to locate resource in repository [INFO] Unable to find resource 'org.clojure:clojure:pom:1.+' in repository clojars (http://clojars.org/repo/) Downloading: org/clojure/clojure/1.+/clojure-1.+.pom from repository stuartsierra-releases at http://stuartsierra.com/maven2 Unable to locate resource in repository [INFO] Unable to find resource 'org.clojure:clojure:pom:1.+' in repository stuartsierra-releases (http://stuartsierra.com/maven2) Downloading: org/clojure/clojure/1.+/clojure-1.+.pom from repository clojure at http://build.clojure.org/releases Unable to locate resource in repository [INFO] Unable to find resource 'org.clojure:clojure:pom:1.+' in repository clojure (http://build.clojure.org/releases) Downloading: org/clojure/clojure/1.+/clojure-1.+.pom from repository clojure-snapshots at http://build.clojure.org/snapshots Unable to locate resource in repository [INFO] Unable to find resource 'org.clojure:clojure:pom:1.+' in repository clojure-snapshots (http://build.clojure.org/snapshots) Downloading: org/clojure/clojure/1.+/clojure-1.+.pom from repository central at http://repo1.maven.org/maven2 Unable to locate resource in repository [INFO] Unable to find resource 'org.clojure:clojure:pom:1.+' in repository central (http://repo1.maven.org/maven2) Copying 9 files to /Users/gw/tech/clojurestuff/cljprojects/infwb/lib Copying 1 file to /Users/gw/tech/clojurestuff/cljprojects/infwb/lib/dev Listening for transport dt_socket at address: 61012 ;;; proceed to jack in
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APPENDIX 2 (December 12, 2011) Thanks to everyone who offered help, especially @ivant, to whom I award a tick. I am going to consider this situation closed, because I gave up trying to fix it. This was difficult thanks to the use of a pre-packaged initialization package, which, I am sure, is quite pleasant, but I could not understand what it was doing, and whether it helped this problem.
I restarted the “clean” Emacs 24 and returned to swank-clojure 1.3.3, and clojure-jack-in now works fine. I will try the CDT later as soon as the error registered in swank-clojure 1.4.0-SNAPSHOT is resolved.
I learned some of the comments from people - thanks again.