I'm also a big Vim guy and recently spent a few late nights hacking on some Clojure stuff. I tried to learn both Emacs and Clojure and eventually had to give up

I'm also a big Vim guy and recently spent a few late nights hacking on some Clojure stuff. I tried to learn both Emacs and Clojure and eventually had to give up and just use Vim until I was more comfortable in Clojure. At minimum, you need a easy way to paste top-level forms into a repl. This is the simplest way for Vim: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=3023 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=3023 That script is actually crazy useful & I now use it for a whole bunch of different use cases. That said, the Emacs->Slime<->Swank<-Clojure bridge is really much better & think that I'm going to invest some more effort into becoming proficient at Emacs. My limited experiments with Slime were very positive & nothing in the Vim world even comes close. I tried all the various attempts in their current form as of two weeks ago. Most are hard to get running, don't work exactly right, struggle with subprocesses management, etc. And you're totally on your own with those, no warrantee and no maturity.