Learning Emacs has been a recurring item in my list of things to do, and never gets any attention. Recently, I’ve started learning clojure and I’m now at the advanced-n00b level. And every clojurain swears by Emacs and learning clojure & emacs seem to be complementing goals.

So I switched to emacs as my basic editor and got better using it. It is a joy to use Emacs with SWANK+REPL and I was able to bootstrap some
simple clojure/compojure web project. You’ll read more on that in upcoming blogposts.

Another interesting thing is I use Emacs for connecting to IRC, Jabber and even reading Twitter feed. My desktop is now less cluttered and with less number of apps, less distractions. In the process I’m even learning some elisp which again helps me with the goal to learn clojure.

The setup now I have is Emacs + Inconsolata font + Solarized Dark theme for Terminal. Here’s a screenshot:

As you can see in the screenshot, this blog post is composed using weblogger-entry-mode.