Slime mode error

Question

I was following the guide and information from A gentle tutorial to Emacs/Swank/Paredit for Clojure

However after opening elpa and installing clojure-mode, slime and paredit. I restarted emacs and then attempted to use M-x slime however it continually says no match . What am I doing wrong?

I then tried to install clojure-mode from marmalade http://marmalade-repo.org/packages I byte-compiled package el and then added (add-to-list 'package-archives '("marmalade" . "http://marmalade-repo.org/packages/")) to my.emacs. However marmalade errors with Symbol's value as variable is void: package-archives .

Unsure exactly what I am doing wrong I am on windows7 using emacs 23.3. I have clojure installed to c:/clojure.

Any help appreciated.

Linseed

Answer 1

My init.el has both (require 'package) and (package-initialize). It's not very big, it looks like this:

(require 'package)
;; Add the original Emacs Lisp Package Archive
(add-to-list 'package-archives
             '("elpa" . "http://tromey.com/elpa/"))
;; Add the user-contributed repository
(add-to-list 'package-archives
             '("marmalade" . "http://marmalade-repo.org/packages/"))
(package-initialize)

I'm on emacs 24 (a development build) on Windows 7. I had trouble getting emacs 23 to work with packages too, it was easier for me to just upgrade.

By the way, I noticed that if I set a HOME environment variable, emacs looks there for the .emacs.d directory (instead of in %USER_PROFILE%\AppData\Roaming).

Myrnamyrobalan

Answer 2

1. Download package.el (don't follow the instructions on the ELPA site, just download the package.el provided on marmalade's site).
2. Put package.el in your .emacs.d directory (~/.emacs.d/).
3. Add the following to your .emacs file (~/.emacs):

---

;;Load path to my packages

(add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/")

;;Load ELPA (the package.el you downloaded from marmalade)

(require 'package)

;;Load Marmalade (the code found on marmalade's welcome page)

(add-to-list 'package-archives '("marmalade" . "http://marmalade-repo.org/packages/"))

That's it! I really hope this helps.

EDIT: Sorry, I forgot to mention that you need to add (package-initialize) at the end of the code I provided. If you don't add this line, the packages will install, but won't load.

Florance

Answer 3

I think, that you need to put

(require 'package)

before 'add-to-list'

P.S. and add following call after 'add-to-list'

(package-initialize)

this command will load installed packages and activate them

P.P.S. '(require 'package)' maybe not needed, but I'm personally not using 'package.el'

Sear

Thanks it currently still wont work. ELPA works but marmalade wont. Which is a shame because clojure mode on marmalade is 1.9.4 and on ELPA 1.7.1. One things certain the directions on marmalade-repo.org are definitely vague and likely not accurate. – Linseed

If you always want to have fresh version, you can look onto el-get package (github.com/dimitri/el-get) – Sear

I just tried on my fresh Emacs (from BZR) and package.el shows version from marmalade-repo -- 1.9.2 – Sear

Answer 4

It seems to me you're missing either (require 'package) or (package-initialize). You can check out my setup here - I'm using both marmalade and clojure-mode on Windows 7 and it works like a charm.

Voltaire

I have put the package.el in my .emacs.d directory and it still wont load with the (require 'package) and/or (package-initialize) in .emacs. I tried your git package created a directory and cloned to C:\emacs_kit\emacs-dev-kit created ln -s C:/emacs_kit/emacs-dev-kit ~/.emacs.d . After starting emacs though M-X slime still had no match error. – Linseed

On windows 7 .emacs.d should be in "c:/Users/Username/AppData/Roaming/.emacs.d" - otherwise Emacs won't pick it up. – Voltaire

oh yeah I agree, I am trying to setup emacs to work with clojure on a XP PC, Win7 Laptop & Vectorlinux box. – Linseed

~/.emacs.d is not on the load-path by default, so even if you've put package.el there, you won't be able to require it. Try (add-to-list 'load-path (expand-file-name "~/.emacs.d")) – Dishpan

Answer 5

Do not know it is same problem, I faced when I were trying to use quicklisp's swank/slime

Finally I found that few /contrib/*.el packages were dependent on each other if A's dependency package is B, if B is not byte-compiled than A will not compile

when you do (require 'A)

it will throw Symbol's variable value is void: A

So ensure you compile each package than try require.

Towers