Clojure Quick Start Guide

Here is another tip for those who are upgrading from swank-clojure 1.0 (to 1.1.0) - [This is on the Mac, it worked seamlessly on Windows]. Swank-clojure creates a .swank-clojure directory under your home. For some reason when upgrading it could not delete that directory. So even though swank-clojure 1.1.0 uses Clojure 1.1 and Clojure-Contrib 1.1 my repl would always start with the previous version.

Wiping out that directory (.swank-clojure) and then upgrading using ELPA from within Emacs did the trick for me. This is only useful if you tend to run a standalone repl for learning/experimenting and are not using leiningen (or the clojure maven plugin). If you have a project setup that you are/want to use read on...

Instead of trying to get swank-clojure to have the correct jars in its class-path, just create a dummy project using lein new <dummy-name> and update the project.clj file to have the latest clojure (and contrib) jars. Start a swank server using "lein repl" (or is it "lein swank") and connect from emacs.

@ghotli - Just read your blog post - I did not think of using "lein new <project-name>" and swank-clojure-project together. Thanks for the tip.