I&#x27;m also an Emacs guy, but I agree with the post&#x27;s assessment of the complexity of starting out with Emacs vs. another editor.<p>I prefer Emacs because it is so easy to switch between buffers holding different files, or different places in the same file, because it has keyboard macros, its infinite customizability, Org-Mode, etc., etc.<p>But that&#x27;s a lot to learn, and if you are trying to learn Clojure, you should use whatever allows you to focus on the language itself.