This is great timing for me. I sat down a few nights ago with the intention of learning Clojure, but ended up spending the whole evening wrestling with Emacs and SLIME, trying and failing to get a usable REPL. Perhaps I should have given up and just used the REPL in a terminal window, but I already know from my Common Lisp tinkering how useful it is to have SLIME.<p>On my adventures I found plenty of blog posts like this one, but none of them very recent, and I couldn't get any of them to work. Hopefully I'll have better luck this time, with a guide matching the current state of Clojure's distribution.
With M-x swank-clojure-project, you don't have to slime-connect, just provide a project path.<p><a href="http://github.com/technomancy/swank-clojure" rel="nofollow">http://github.com/technomancy/swank-clojure</a>