That's completely understandable. I really don't have a huge reason to be doing things this way. I've just been going through The Joy of Clojure and decided to

That's completely understandable. I really don't have a huge reason to be doing things this way. I've just been going through The Joy of Clojure and decided to give emacs a spin, and I wanted some similar editing idioms while messing with it. I've basically been translating the shortcuts and techniques I use in vim into some ugly elisp, bit by bit, assuming they don't work as expected with vimpule/viper. I wouldn't say it's an amazing solution, but mucking through the emacs docs to get things working has been a quick way to get a basic proficiency in how emacs works, and how elisp can be used. Ultimately I still end up in vim for most of my editing, and I keep tacking things onto emacs as I go, but mostly when I'm just writing some clojure. I wouldn't say it's efficient at all; it's just interesting enough to kill time with because my life isn't very busy and it seems 'nifty'.