Great write up. I use IntelliJ for most of my Clojure dev work, but I do like nREPL and I am using Ian's setup notes to improve my setup. BTW, I started using Clojure years ago because of Ian's influence - that is what I used on his projects. I used to be firmly in the Common Lisp camp (and used to use Ian's Elephant CLOS database wrapper) but I have mostly stopped using Common Lisp and Scheme in favor of Clojure.