[mbillie1]

Well... I may be biased as one of those folks who uses both vim and emacs, but: there is a big (positive) difference in my opinion between evaluating code in-line, right from your source file, in your editor, than copy+pasting it into a REPL somewhere. Loading up your ns in cider and then being able to evaluate functions, edit them, and see their output right in emacs is terrifically powerful. Even in SublimeText or IntelliJ or something you have to wrap the function in question in a print statement to do that, sometimes affecting lexical scope, etc.

[lemming]

No, you don't - in Cursive (in IntelliJ) you have always been able to send forms directly to the REPL from your editor. I think all good Clojure environments allow this.