title: In a Emacs + Slime + Clojure + Windows setup, failure to load clojure-auto
body: <p>I followed <a href="http://dc.clj.fogus.me/index.php?title=Installing_Clojure_and_Slime_on_Windows" rel="nofollow noreferrer">this very helpful guide</a> on getting this development environment set up. When running the <em>emacs.bat</em> I get the following error in Emacs:</p>
  
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    <p>File error: Cannot open load file, clojure-auto</p>
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  <p>Unfortunitely I am completely new to both Clojure and Emacs, so any help in even figuring out where to begin looking would be helpful.</p>
  
  <p>Also, as a side note the last step in the guide is:</p>
  
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    <p>Start up Emacs using the emacs.bat file. Then, just type "M-x slime", and the REPL will come up, and you're on your way. </p>
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  <p>According to the Emacs documentation, M-x would be Meta key + x. It's unclear on the Meta key in Windows, however. It talks about Control, but that would be C+x, so I assume it's Shift. I also tried M+! thinking it was a shell command, but no luck. Perhaps somebody could confirm in a comment.</p>
  
  <p><strong>Update:</strong> From <em>dfa</em> in the comments: "meta is Alt" which works. Thank you.</p>
  
  <p><strong>Update:</strong> Very helpful info from Rayne: </p>
  
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    <p>If you're emacs experience continues to go the wrong way, don't give up on Clojure. There is always La Clojure for IDEA Clojure-dev for Eclipse and my personal favorite, Enclojure for NetBeans.</p>
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