A literate programming file for programming in Clojure.
I like Clojure as a modern Lisp, but I don’t get to play with it much anymore. 😢 The following instructions create a fully blinged-out Emacs-Clojure setup.
To get Clojure working on a new MacOS system using Homebrew, try the following:
brew install clojure/tools/clojure
brew install leiningen
And make sure it works:
clojure --help
Or by starting a REPL:
clj
Then for each project, create the project directory with this command:
lein new app fresh-app
Install and configure clojure-mode:
(use-package clojure-mode
:init
(add-to-list 'org-babel-load-languages '(clojure . t))
:config
(defun ha-prettify-clojure ()
"Make the Clojure syntax prettier."
(push '("fn" . ?𝝀) prettify-symbols-alist)
(push '("__" . ?⁈) prettify-symbols-alist)
(prettify-symbols-mode))
:hook (clojure-mode . ha-prettify-clojure))
Need the IDE features associated with Cider:
(use-package cider
:after clojure-mode
:commands (cider-connect cider-jack-in cider)
:init
(setq cider-show-error-buffer t
;; The use of paredit when editing Clojure (or any other Lisp) code is
;; highly recommended. You're probably using it already in your
;; clojure-mode buffers (if you're not you probably should). You might
;; also want to enable paredit in the REPL buffer as well.
;; (add-hook 'cider-repl-mode-hook #'paredit-mode)
;; Don't select the error buffer when it's displayed:
cider-auto-select-error-buffer nil
;; Controls whether to pop to the REPL buffer on connect.
cider-repl-pop-to-buffer-on-connect nil
cider-repl-use-clojure-font-lock t
;; T to wrap history around when the end is reached.
cider-repl-wrap-history t
cider-repl-history-size 1000
;; Hide `*nrepl-connection*' and `*nrepl-server*' buffers from appearing
;; in some buffer switching commands like switch-to-buffer
nrepl-hide-special-buffers t
;; Stop error buffer from popping up while working in buffers other than the REPL:
nrepl-popup-stacktraces nil)
;; Enabling CamelCase support for editing commands (like forward-word,
;; backward-word, etc) in the REPL is quite useful since we often have
;; to deal with Java class and method names. The built-in Emacs minor
;; mode subword-mode provides such functionality
:hook (cider-repl-mode . #'subword-mode)
:config
(ha-local-leader :keymaps clojure-mode-map
"w" '(:ignore t :which-key "cider")
"w s" '("start" . cider-jack-in)
"w r" '("restart" . cider-restart)
"w c" '("connect" . cider-connect)
"w b" '("switch" . cider-switch-repl-buffer)
"w n" '("namespace" . cider-repl-set-ns)
"w e" '("describe" . cider-describe-connection)
"w x" '("interrupt" . cider-interrupt)
"w q" '("quit" . cider-quit)
"b" '(:ignore t :which-key "load")
"b b" '("load buffer" . cider-load-buffer)
"b f" '("load file" . cider-load-file)
"b f" '("load all" . cider-load-all-files)
"b r" '("refresh all" . cider-ns-refresh)
"e" '(:ignore t :which-key "eval")
"e e" '("last s-expr" . cider-eval-last-sexp)
"e E" '("replace s-expr" . cider-eval-last-sexp-and-replace)
"e ." '("s-expr point" . cider-eval-sexp-at-point)
"e f" '("defun" . cider-eval-defun-at-point)
"e F" '("file" . cider-eval-file)
"e b" '("buffer" . cider-eval-buffer)
"e r" '("region" . cider-eval-region)
"e R" '("to repl" . cider-eval-last-sexp-to-repl)
"e n" '("namespace" . cider-eval-ns-form)
"e ;" '("expression" . cider-read-and-eval)
"e i" '("inspect" . cider-inspect)
"e p" '(:ignore t :which-key "pprint")
"e p p" '("last s-expr" . cider-pprint-eval-last-sexp)
"e p f" '("defun" . cider-pprint-eval-defun-at-point)
"e p r" '("to repl" . cider-pprint-eval-last-sexp-to-repl)
;; Overshadowing xref menu in `ha-programming':
"s" '(:ignore t :which-key "search")
"s d" '("definition" . cider-find-resource)
"s s" '("var" . cider-find-var)
"s f" '("file" . cider-find-ns)
"s o" '("other window" . xref-find-definitions-other-window)
"s D" '("deps" . cider-xref-fn-deps)
"s b" '("back" . cider-pop-back)
"t" '(:ignore t :which-key "test")
"t t" '("run test" . cider-test-run-test)
"t r" '("rerun test" . cider-test-rerun-test)
"t a" '("run all" . cider-test-run-ns-tests)
"t p" '("run project" . cider-test-run-project-tests)
"t f" '("run failed" . cider-test-rerun-failed-tests)
"t R" '("show report" . cider-test-show-report)
"d" '(:ignore t :which-key "docs")
"d d" '("documentation" . cider-doc)
"d s" '("search docs" . cider-apropos-documentation)
"d j" '("javadocs" . cider-javadoc)
"d c" '("clojuredocs" . cider-clojuredocs)
"d a" '("apropos" . cider-apropos)))
Read the entire CIDER manual, specifically the Usage document.
Note: The Spacemacs community recommends using clj-kondo in combination with joker. Add lint warnings to Flycheck:
(use-package flycheck-clojure
:after flycheck
:config
(flycheck-clojure-setup))
To install the joker
binary:
brew install candid82/brew/joker
And the flycheck-joker package should do the trick:
(use-package flycheck-joker)
To install the clj-kondo
binary is a bit more involved:
curl -sLO https://raw.githubusercontent.com/clj-kondo/clj-kondo/master/script/install-clj-kondo
chmod +x install-clj-kondo
./install-clj-kondo
And the flycheck-clj-kondo project should do the integration:
(use-package flycheck-clj-kondo)
Search on Clojars more easily
This clojars extension allows you to search for projects on clojars.org and copies your selection to the kill ring in a format suitable for your project.clj
.
(use-package clojars
:after clojure-mode
:config
(ha-local-leader :keymaps clojure-mode-map
"h j" '("clojars" . clojars)))
(use-package clojure-cheatsheet
:after clojure-mode
:config
(ha-local-leader :keymaps clojure-mode-map
"h c" '("cheatsheet" . clojure-cheatsheet)))
For clojure-specific templates for yasnippets, we use David Nolen’s clojure-snippets repository:
(use-package clojure-snippets)
The clj-refactor project:
(use-package clj-refactor
:after clojure-mode
:hook
(clojure-mode . clj-refactor-mode)
:config
;; Configure the Clojure Refactoring prefix.
(cljr-add-keybindings-with-prefix "C-c .")
(ha-local-leader :keymaps clojure-mode-map
;; Would really like to have this on the , prefix:
"r" '("refactoring" . hydra-cljr-help-menu/body)
"h d" '("describe refactoring" . cljr-describe-refactoring)
"h r" '("refactoring" . hydra-cljr-toplevel-form-menu/body))
:diminish clj-refactor-mode)
The advanced refactorings require the refactor-nrepl middleware, which should explain why we added the refactor-nrepl
to the :plugins
section in the ~/.lein/profiles.clj
file (see below).
The real problem is trying to remember all the refactoring options. Remember: C-c . h h
And of course, we want to put this with org blocks:
(use-package ob-clojure
:straight (:type built-in)
:custom
(org-babel-clojure-backend 'cider)
:config
(add-to-list 'org-babel-load-languages '(clojure . t)))
Does this now work?
(format "The answer is %d" (+ (* 4 10) 2))
Let’s provide
a name so we can require
this file: