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<h3><strong>Setup</strong></h3>

<p>Install <a href="http://www.jedit.org/">JEdit</a> for your particular platform. Once installed, launch the JEdit application. Using the top-level menu open <strong>Plugins &gt; Plugin Manager...</strong> switch to the <strong>Install</strong> tab and select <strong>Clojure</strong> and <strong>Clojure Shell</strong>. Click <strong>Install</strong>.</p>

<p>You can start a REPL with <strong>Plugins &gt; Clojure Shell &gt; Open Clojure Shell</strong>. In that submenu you will find other useful common commands.</p>

<h3>Running Programs</h3>

<p>Select <strong>Plugins &gt; Console &gt; Commando...</strong> In the window that opens select <strong>clojure</strong> from the drop down menu. You will see various options for running the current open file. Click <strong>Ok</strong> and your file will be run with those JVM settings.</p>

<h3>Syntax Highlighting &amp; Auto-indentation</h3>

<p>First determine the platform dependent location of JEdit's mode files. For example, on OS X this will be <strong>~/Library/JEdit/modes</strong>. Download <a href="http://github.com/djspiewak/jedit-modes/blob/master/clojure.xml">Daniel Spiewak's Clojure mode file</a>. Put this in the your modes directory. You also need to edit the <strong>catalog</strong> file in your modes directory. Make it look like the following:</p>

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&lt;?xml version="1.0"?>
&lt;!DOCTYPE MODES SYSTEM "catalog.dtd">

&lt;MODES>

&lt;!-- Add lines like the following, one for each edit mode you add: -->
&lt;!-- &lt;MODE NAME="foo" FILE="foo.xml" FILE_NAME_GLOB="*.foo" /> -->
&lt;MODE NAME="clojure" FILE="clojure.xml" FILE_NAME_GLOB="*.clj" />

&lt;/MODES>
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<p>You may need to restart JEdit.</p>