Paredit 25 released (after 8 years)

Re:Paredit 25 released (after 8 years) by Barrin92 on Saturday November 26, 2022 @05:02PM (#33757252)

I would consider myself a fairly unserious paredit user and I still think it's immensely useful. The things I use most of the time are really just barf, slurp and splice yet it makes so much more sense to me now to think of S-expressions structurally rather than just editing text.

Both the advantage and disadvantage of lisp are its lack of structure and paredit forcing you to keep your code intact really prevents a ton of issues just by having it on.

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Re:Paredit 25 released (after 8 years) by srcreigh on Saturday November 26, 2022 @07:04PM (#33758416)

Same. I don’t even have shortcuts for paredit, I just M-X barf-forward- whatever (fuzzy find with selectrum) when I need it.

The only paredit shortcut I know is M-s to remove a set of parens.

That said I also use boon, which has some modal editing in particular a way to skip past an entire set of parens.

To GP: Why not enable it just for sake of keeping your parens balanced. Make sure you have a good way to discover commands like selectrum. And tada. Don’t have to learn it all right away.

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Re:Paredit 25 released (after 8 years) by hirple on Sunday November 27, 2022 @04:12PM (#33767016)

Somewhat related - does anyone use meow + paredit? I can’t find a clearly recommended way to combine the two as I can with boon.

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