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Paredit made a massive difference when I was writing Lisp. It does take some getting used to, but pretty sure it was a net positive after a week of use. I actu
by ahmedalsudani 4y ago
Paredit made a massive difference when I was writing Lisp. It does take some getting used to, but pretty sure it was a net positive after a week of use.
I actually started enabling it when writing other languages (Python/C++) to see if it could do its magic there.
- the-lazy-guy 4y agoYou probably know that, but there is smartparens mode which does similar magic to non-lisp languages: https://github.com/Fuco1/smartparens https://github.com/Fuco1/smartparens
- qorrect 4y agoI did not know that!
- ahmedalsudani 4y agoIn recent years, I have been spoiled by doom-emacs (and previously spacemacs). They have made everything work out of the box for me to such an extent that I mostly don't know what's active--I've just learned the right leader combination to get what I need done. It turns out I've been using smartparens without realizing--just opened a file and checked the active modes to find out. The keys I've learned are (using evil): - [Visual mode] S -> surround by a pair - [Visual mode] d <char> -> delete pair of <char> - [Visual mode] c <c1> <c2> -> replace pair of <c1> with pair of <c2> Those along with C-M-k to kill a sexp and % to go to the other end of a pair have been all I need for my work (the vast majority C/C++ and Python). One thing I keep putting off is figuring out a way to jump to the opening/closing quotes. For those I still have to go medieval if there's any nesting.