I don't know what editor you are using, but I think you really need a parenthesis plugin. Something like paredit for emacs. A single parenthesis in a line is a

I don't know what editor you are using, but I think you really need a parenthesis plugin. Something like paredit for emacs. A single parenthesis in a line is a waste of space and makes the code harder to read. Once you know how to move it cross lisp, the parenthesis is a blessing. You can remove or move whole blocks of code in a fraction of a second.