Re: Clojure mode

[Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>]

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

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> It appears that there is no clojure-mode command in core Emacs.
> There is a Clojure mode package, but it is in NonGNU ELPA.
>
> I think that language is important enough that, notwithstanding not
> really being similar to Lisp, we ought to have a major mode to support it.
> Would someone please work on that?

I had brought this up in the recent clojure-ts-mode thread, that I
assume you are referring to.  Sadly, I have no experience with the
language, but one idea might be to extend lisp-data-mode by whatever the
syntactic differences are, to at least have some basic visual support in
terms of syntax highlighting and the like.

> This could be done by getting copyright assignments for code in the
> NonGNU ELPA package, or by writing new code to replace it, or by a
> mixture of the two.

The issue here is, that the clojure-mode developers are mostly averse to
assigning their code to the FSF.