I'm a lisp history nut, but I wasn't around at that time. Paredid doesn't really turn emacs into a structure editor, its more like a "standard editor with some

I'm a lisp history nut, but I wasn't around at that time. Paredid doesn't really turn emacs into a structure editor, its more like a "standard editor with some of the better ideas of structure editors miked in" kind of mode. Structure editors introduce a lot of complexity in general. Maybe Interlisp was able to work well in practice despite the added complexity, I don't know, I really would like to know more about such systems. As for your last sentence, Erik Naggum who had a bad opinion on structure editors in general, seems to have liked the idea of a structure inspector, as in using such tools to inspect code, ratter than create it: http://www.xach.com/naggum/articles/3064225496493947@naggum.no.html http://www.xach.com/naggum/articles/3064225496493947@naggum....