oh man, i was about to ask in here how to evaluate a clojure form into my current buffer because I am doing some exploratory programming and found that transforming my source code using clojure was easier than dong a complicated emacs macro to edit things (think reversing the key/value pairs in a map). I then realized it's probably easy to figure out myself and indeed it was! Instead of C-x C-e, I could just do C-u C-x C-e to set the optional OUTPUT_TO_CURRENT_BUFFER arg to the command and boom, there it is. I love emacs and cider so much :)