I was used to Vim as well, but I decided to jump into Emacs and Clojure at the same time.
Once I installed Evil-mode (Vim bindings), an Emacs buffer felt so similar to Vim that I was immediately productive.
From there, I could just focus on the other things like how to open a file (C-x f) and how to launch nREPL and begin evaluating code within Clojure source files.
I tried this route for a long time but didn't find it to be worth it at all. All the plugins you use will still have horrible chording style shortcuts.
I'm much happier now that I'm just using vim-fireplace.
Once I installed Evil-mode (Vim bindings), an Emacs buffer felt so similar to Vim that I was immediately productive.
From there, I could just focus on the other things like how to open a file (C-x f) and how to launch nREPL and begin evaluating code within Clojure source files.