While I truly appreciate emacs and vim, I had the same problem. Ultimately I went with IntelliJ IDEA and a plug-in for Clojure called Cursive. It's served me w

While I truly appreciate emacs and vim, I had the same problem. Ultimately I went with IntelliJ IDEA and a plug-in for Clojure called Cursive. It's served me well; getting past the environment challenges and into the language itself was a godsend.