Here is what I did - 1. Started with emacs-starter-kit - http://github.com/technomancy/emacs-starter-kit http://github.com/technomancy/emacs-starter-kit 2. In

Here is what I did - 1. Started with emacs-starter-kit - http://github.com/technomancy/emacs-starter-kit http://github.com/technomancy/emacs-starter-kit 2. Install clojure-mode, slime, slime-repl and swank-clojure using ELPA (M-x package-list-packages) 3. Install http://github.com/technomancy/leiningen http://github.com/technomancy/leiningen (again technomancy) Starting a new project is the following - 1. lein new <project_name> 2. Tweak the project.clj to pull in the dependencies I need (Using the project.clj that leiningen is a good starting point http://github.com/technomancy/leiningen/blob/master/project.clj http://github.com/technomancy/leiningen/blob/master/project.... ) 3. Fire up emacs - M-x swank-clojure-project and point to the root of the newly created leiningen project. I understand that those new to Java-land, the concept of the classpath, jars, maven all can be a little daunting, but that is the nature of Java as it stands today. Hope this helped [Edited for formatting]