@cappy2112 I'll try to help get your emacs setup going, and there are others in here that know much more than I do this is a good place to chat about it

I sent an emacs init.el file that used the "use-package" package to install the basic packages for a decent experience with Clojure.

And it seems that the calls to the package system are not working for you, so it's unable to actually install any packages.

Does this sound like I've gotten remotely close to understanding what's going on?

hey now - new Emacs user here... setup based on http://www.braveclojure.com/basic-emacs/ and now I'm trying to get auto-completion to work with https://github.com/clojure-emacs/ac-cider -- I installed it and added it to my init.el file, and it says

ac-cider should now automatically be enabled when you visit a buffer in which cider-mode is active and auto-complete is enabled. (The symbols “cider” and “AC” should appear in the modeline.)

auto-complete was working fine in the REPL even before messing around with ac-cider...

jeff, brave clojure uses an ancient version of CIDER (0.8 vs 0.15). I spent two hours with someone recently who tried to use it and upgrade and we couldn't figure it out

I see

if you're looking for a nice out of the box solution, I would recommend bbatsov's (creator of CIDER) emacs init called prelude

https://github.com/bbatsov/prelude

that's what i run and i've been immensely happy with it

but is your problem here that you're just not seeing the modeline minor modes?

stuff like this?

ok I can look into using Prelude

or are you having issues with the autocomplete?

my issue is that autocomplete isn't working -- minor modes aren't getting activated (but I have no idea how they do get activated)

but if I should upgrade first that's fine you tell me

honestly, I would just jump on prelude

ok

I'll give that a shot and see

that version you are on has a checked in, byte compiled, old version of cider. i think there have been changes in bytecode and other things

it was just nasty

ok

thanks!

I'll report back 🙂