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With paredit in GNU Emacs: 1) place the cursor on the left parenthesis of the form 2) type paredit-wrap-round: M-( 3) type: if flag Doesn't appear to be ove

by _19qg 2y ago

With paredit in GNU Emacs: 1) place the cursor on the left parenthesis of the form 2) type paredit-wrap-round: M-( 3) type: if flag Doesn't appear to be overly complex.

kagevf 2y ago
With built-in emacs functionality you can do: 1. Place the cursor on the left parenthesis of the form (same as you wrote) 2. C-M-Space to select the form. 3. M-( to surrond with parenthesis. 4. type "if flag" (same as you wrote for #3) One extra step, but no need for a plugin. Also, I added a simple "insert-quotes" that I think I mostly copy-pasted from the built-in "insert-parentheses": (defun insert-quotes (&optional arg) (interactive "P") (insert-pair arg ?\" ?\")) So I can replace my #3 above to wrap something with quotes instead of parentheses.
- lispm 2y ago
  > So I can replace my #3 above to wrap something with quotes instead of parentheses. That's M-" .
  - kagevf 2y ago
    Interesting, I did not know that! But, the one I wrote mimics how insert-parentheses works, so I will probably stick to my version.
sudahtigabulan 2y ago
Typing "(if flag", and then C-Right to slurp the call in is also intuitive and short. What truly confuses me is how the PP claims they "went in completely" and "did this for a few months", yet they failed to learn the basics.