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string matching in clojure ? you never read about lisps I suppose.

I'm even pretty sure that until a decade ago, Emacs had a more grammatical understanding of source code than Visual Studio.

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I've been working with clojure professionally for over 4 years. The default navigation in emacs is non-existent as far as I can tell and only works at all once you've loaded the source into the REPL. Even that only works for resolving top-level vars and doesn't work for local bindings. Admittedly I tend to use cursive so this may have changed recently. But that still doesn't help you understand the argument/return types of functions etc.

ok so it seems you've read about lisps :)

maybe I don't expect as much as you do then.. I always felt a lot happier in a repl than in an IDE but I have to admit too that I didn't use IDEs a lot recently. (my last bits were scala and java graph moocs under eclipse and I was as angry as I used to be previously).

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