Emacs Clojure mode without paredit

Question

I'm using the Clojure mode package from ELPA. Otherwise everything is fine, but I just can't stand paredit mode. I can't seem to turn it off easily, now I just disable it for every buffer I open. I tried setting this variable to nil:

(setq clojure-enable-paredit nil)

But paredit still appears. Any ideas?

Answer 1

Not an answer to your actual question, but give paredit mode a chance. I, too, was really annoyed with it automatically closing my parens, and refusing to delete just a single paren for me.

But doing this enables it to be certain at all times that the buffer is a well-balanced sexp, so it can perform many useful sexp-oriented tasks for you instead of just text-oriented tasks. For example, I use the following all the time :

• M-( to wrap a sexp with a new one, eg turn (map f some-list) into (doto (map f some-list) println)
• C-) to "slurp" another sexp into the current one, eg turn (let [x 10]) (println x) into (let [x 10] (println x))
• M-<UP> and/or Mr to pull the sexp at point a level "higher" in the source tree, destroying the thing that was wrapping it, eg to turn (first (map f some-list)) into (map f some-list) or (first some-list)

There are zillions of useful features like this, that let you start editing code instead of text . And while there are plenty of excellent Lisp hackers who don't like paredit mode, I advise you not to decide against it before you realize the awesome stuff it can do for you.

Answer 2

Found one trick that works. Before the elpa packages are loaded in init.el , add this hook to clojure mode:

(add-hook 'clojure-mode-hook (lambda () (paredit-mode nil)))

Answer 3

For what it's worth, I use clojure-mode through ELPA too, and it doesn't imply paredit. Maybe just uninstall it? I find clojure-mode, slime and slime-repl are the only packages I need to install on a clean EMACS to get clojure/swank/slime working.

I only tested this:

http://www.learningclojure.com/2010/08/clojure-emacs-swank-slime-maven-maven.html

a few weeks ago, and it still works fine.