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Since the article is targeted at those wanting to get started with clojure, I recommend that newcomers avoid trying to learn a new editor and a new language at the same time.

There are clojure plugins for many popular editors these days. If you already have an editor/IDE you like, I'd recommend starting there and moving to something else in the future once you get used to it.

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I'd say that this is usually the case for many languages, but Lisp IDEs have been refined, unrefined, GMOd, and subjected to all kinds of prodding that you generally want to pick one of the approved environments (Emacs, LispWorks Emacsish, Allegro I-wanna-be-Genera-Emacs).

The main reason for this is that so many of the tutorials will assume emacs for your repl management beyond the basic "(car '(foo bar baz))" and any emacs will have a well-defined "manage the indentation and parens"-mode.

Getting help from other people will often involve Emacs-specific instructions as well. "C-c C-e at the end of the sexpr and eval the result..." which may or may not be the binding in Eclipse or whatever IDE the person is using.

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