Started the process of getting jiggy with Clojure at work and didn’t like the idea of using Eclipse for my day to day work… so I started looking at how to make vim and clojure get along and came across a great post! Here are the distilled notes plus minor tweaks to get anyone out there trying to do the same thing going:

1. Download VimClojure (http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2501)
2. Download VimSlime (https://github.com/jpalardy/vim-slime)
3. Extract these files into your ~/.vim folder
4. Add the following lines to ~/.vimrc:
   • " Settings for VimClojure
   • let vimclojure#HighlightBuiltins = 1
   • let vimclojure#ParenRainbow = 1
   • " Send entire file to repl
   • nmap <C-m> ggVG<C-c><C-c>
5. Start a repl session inside screen:
   • screen -S clojure
   • lein repl
6. Open a clojure file with vim and highlight the method you want to evaluate
7. Press ctrl + c twice
   • For session name prompt, enter ‘clojure’ which is the name of the screen session
   • For window name prompt, accept the default number displayed
8. The selected code should be evaluated in the screen session
9. Press ctrl + c, v to get prompt again

NOTES:

• I chose to start a repl using lein but you can use whatever you’re familar with to get a repl started
• I have lein inside a directory in my Dropbox as well as all of my vim files and plugins. I then created soft links to them in my $HOME directory which makes this whole thing very easy to access from different systems as long as Dropbox is installed :)