Oh, my Clojure [Emacs]

Clojure is very well supported in Emacs, of course. The instructions are here.
The Emacs Automatic Package Manager is needed!
Stuff on vim and TextMate, here.

I followed them I found myself with no usable REPL. I tried both with slime (which works, though I don't like how) and without, which basically does not work.

In fact I have to admit I'm not extremely pleased with the current situation. I suppose I will stick with IntelliJ. There is another Clojure plugin besides LaClojure, and perhaps that one works better. I may also be in the phase "I like scheme better than clojure right now" and that could explain my dissatisfaction.

I'm probably to try NetBeans with its plugin (LaClojure is broken right now).