Continuing with the topic of editor setups - I highly recommend CIDER if you are already comfortable with Emacs. I say already comfortable because it is a bad i

Continuing with the topic of editor setups - I highly recommend CIDER if you are already comfortable with Emacs. I say already comfortable because it is a bad idea to learn both Clojure and Emacs at the same time, especially so if you have no experience with Lisps. CIDER is extremely powerful and has a built in step-through debugger which is a complete joy to use. It also uses nREPL under the hood and Emacs being built for Lisps, the support for sexp editing is first class - use the Smartparens package and as the parent comment said - use slurp forward, backword, raise, kill form etc. Think of it as editing an AST instead of text. But CIDER is worth it just for the debugging experience.