For Users

Getting started with Light Table

Install it from lighttable.com

http://www.lighttable.com/

Install dependencies

Start LT. Open a new file by pressing Ctrl-N

Set syntax to Clojure (Ctrl-Space to open the command bar, then type/select 'Set editor syntax', type/select Clojure)

type (+ 1 2) Ctrl-Enter (Cmd-Return on Mac)

This will tell LT to install dependencies. Then eval that expression.

Start a instarepl

Press Ctrl-Space to show the command bar, then type "repl" in the command search box, select one item to run it:

• Open a clojure instarepl
• Make current editor an instarepl

instarepl currently only works for clojure files (.clj).

User settings

• Mac: ~/Library/Application Support/LightTable/settings/
• Linux: ~/.config/LightTable/settings/
• Windows: %APPDATALOCAL%/LightTable/settings/

What next

You may want to

• Check the shortcuts. Type Ctrl-Space shortcut Enter

  The basic shortcuts

    Ctrl-W       close tab
    Ctrl-O       open file
    Ctrl-N       new file
    Ctrl-F       find
    Ctrl-Space   show command bar
    Cmd-digit   switch to the Nth tab (Ctrl-digit on Linux)
  

• To change various settings type Ctrl-Space Settings: User behaviors

  • Change a theme by editing the string theme name in (:lt.objs.style/set-theme "default") for example (:lt.objs.style/set-theme "ibdknox")
  • Try vim mode by adding (:lt.plugins.vim/activate-vim)
  • Try emacs mode by adding (:lt.plugins.emacs/activate-emacs)
  • Contribute to this wiki page. Questions and updates welcome.

Tutorials & Screencasts

• Getting the feel for the Light Table's instarepl by Marian Schubert
• Set of screencasts on Clojure programming in LightTable by James Trunk
• Set of screencasts on ClojureScript programmin in LightTable by Zubair Quraishi
• ClojureScript Analysis & Compilation in LightTable by David Nolen
• Leveraging custom expressions to write Idiomatic Clojure code by Daniel Ribeiro