As someone who likes Lisp but who also likes my editors to stay focused primarily on just editing text and letting me type, I think the minimal editor support f

As someone who likes Lisp but who also likes my editors to stay focused primarily on just editing text and letting me type, I think the minimal editor support for a happy enough Lisp editing time is visually matched parens. (rlwrap'ing a terminal REPL counts.) Everything on top of that is gravy, up to the point where you've had enough, and I'll readily admit such a minimalistic setup is probably not the maximal happiness for anyone but at least puts you about at the same level as other language users when those users are outside of a do-everything IDE too... Lots of people like the auto-typing paredit intellisense style of tooling, I can't stand it personally (with the exception of megalithic Java projects where they seem like a necessary evil and both eclipse and intellij are utterly slow at it but that's another rant...), but I do appreciate vim's "%" command to jump between matching delimiters and combine that with other text editing forms, plus rainbow parens so everything is matched without having to highlight. Anyway sometimes I wonder if a lot of newbies get turned off by the parens (in one of the various ways) then get turned off again when "use emacs with all these things!" is the only suggested way to manage that.