A gentle tutorial to Emacs/Swank/Paredit for Clojure

Question

I am moving to Emacs to work on Clojure/Lisp. What is all the information I need to setup on Emacs to be able to do the following?

1. automatic matching/generatio

Answer 1

The Emacs Starter kit has gotten great reviews for getting started with Clojure:

To answer only the swank part of your question:

Leiningen is a really easy way of setting up swank with the correct classpath and get it connected to Emacs.

A great video is here: http://vimeo.com/channels/fulldisclojure#8934942 Here is an example of a project.clj file that

(defproject project "0.1"
    :dependencies [[org.clojure/clojure
                      "1.1.0-master-SNAPSHOT"]
                   [org.clojure/clojure-contrib
                      "1.0-SNAPSHOT"]]
    :dev-dependencies [[leiningen/lein-swank "1.1.0"]]
    :main my.project.main)

then run:

lein swank

and from Emacs:

 alt-x slime-connect