Yes and no. In my experience vim is great for manipulating s-expressions because it has expressions like da( which means "delete everything between the parens w

Yes and no. In my experience vim is great for manipulating s-expressions because it has expressions like da( which means "delete everything between the parens wrapping the cursor". But no, many lisp dialects have a tendency towards nesting expressions which will force them accross many lines which doesn't match up with ^^'s idea of keeping lines context free.