What does the 'swank-clojure' do exactly, and do we have 'swank-SOMETHING_ELSE'?

Question

My superficial understanding is that \'swank-clojure\' makes \'M-x slime-connect\' possible. I mean, it gives a connection to a clojure server something like \'lein swank\'. Is

Answer 1

swank-clojure.el is deprecated. Don't use it.

You need slime.el and you need to have swank-clojure "1.2.1" in your dev-dependcies in your project.clj file.

Swank is basically a server that you use slime to connect to from emacs. It it passed, from emacs, what you want run by the Lisp process that it's running.

You should use M-x slime-connect to connect to a swank server after starting with with lein swank.