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authorBozhidar Batsov <bozhidar@batsov.com>2017-03-08 00:07:56 +0200
committerBozhidar Batsov <bozhidar@batsov.com>2017-03-08 00:07:56 +0200
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<kbd>M-x package-install [RET] cider [RET]</kbd>
+## Manual installation
+
+Alternatively you can simply load CIDER in your Emacs straight from its source
+repo. Assuming you've already obtained the code you should add something like
+this to your Emacs configuration:
+
+```el
+;; load CIDER from its source code
+(add-to-list 'load-path "~/projects/cider")
+(require 'cider)
+```
+
+Just keep in mind that you'll have to manually install all the packages CIDER
+depends on in advance.
+
## CIDER's nREPL middleware
Much of CIDER's functionality depends on the presence of CIDER's