"They"? VimClojure seems to be pretty popular. Most people who use Clojure and Emacs combined already used Emacs for other Lisp programming projects before, so

"They"? VimClojure seems to be pretty popular. Most people who use Clojure and Emacs combined already used Emacs for other Lisp programming projects before, so it definitely depends on the direction you're coming from. Java refugees tend to stick to Eclipse. The real irony is that there's barely any distinction between vim and emacs. The "editor wars" included a lot of size arguments, but with the rising popularity of vim as the de facto default vi (and increasing memory capacity), this is a pretty moot point. Vi have become ze enemy. (The number of people who stick to a smaller vi is probably the same as uemacs users)