Installing SLIME and friends

[Phil Hagelberg]

So I've noticed one of the most common questions in #clojure from
beginners is how to install SLIME. Working with SLIME can be messy
work[1], so I've written some functionality to help out with that.

If you check out my "installer" branch of clojure-mode[2] you can see
the clojure-install command that checks out clojure, clojure-contrib,
slime, and swank-contrib, then configures Emacs to use these
libraries. I've tested it and it works fine on my machine, but I'm
wondering a couple things:

0) Would it be a useful thing to include in mainline clojure-mode to get
beginners started? It's rather unconventional, but it seems like it
could address a very common problem.

1) How well does it work for others?

-Phil

[1] - har har.

[2] - http://github.com/technomancy/clojure-mode/blob/0f28b61de90ce8a09d75bf1668ef3f1c200f9c52/clojure-mode.el#L560