Skip to content

Latest commit

 

History

History
35 lines (16 loc) · 1.7 KB

pre-requisites.md

File metadata and controls

35 lines (16 loc) · 1.7 KB
Raw

Pre-requisites

  • Emacs version 25.1 or greater

  • Leiningen version 2.7.1

  • Git client to clone Spacemacs or zip tool to unpack download

  • no .emacs.d directory in your home account

Emacs

Spacemacs is a community curated set of configurations for the Emacs editor, so it requires a version of Emacs to be installed.

It is highly recommended you install the latest stable version of Emacs, which as of January 2017 is version 25.1.

Emacs uses a project called CIDER to provide an excellent development environment for Clojure and due to dependency changes in the latest version of CIDER, support for Emacs versions earlier than 25.x is no longer provided.

CIDER is installed as part of the Clojure layer in Spacemacs, so we do not need to install CIDER ourselves.

Leiningen

Leiningen is the build automation tool for Clojure and you should install the latest version, currently version 2.7.1.

Emacs (CIDER) commands for clojure such at M-x cider-jack-in call out to Leiningen to run Clojure REPL's

Emacs / Spacemacs configuration

Emacs configuration is typically stored in a series of files and directories under a directory called .emacs.d. This .emacs.d directory lives in the root of your user account, for example /home/jr0cket/.emacs.d on Linux / Unix systems.

As Spacemacs is a community curiated collection of configuration files, then these are placed in the .emacs.d directory. Therefore you should remove any existing .emacs.d directory from your home account, or move that directory elsewhere should you wish to keep any previous configuration.