noctuid

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by noctuid 8y ago
> I'd love to see examples of accomplished Lisp users on YouTube or elsewhere, to see what those code manipulations look like. For one example, see https://github.com/abo-abo/lispy/ The author has a simila
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by noctuid 8y ago
Parinfer seems popular in the clojure community (even among those who have been writing it for a while) and among people new to lisp. In its favor, parinfer's listed selling point is simplicity and not power. I don't think it does
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by noctuid 8y ago
I've never been a fan of paredit, but paredit, smartparens, and lispy are all far more powerful and (for me as well) more intuitive. I agree that parinfer deserves credit for being widely available for different text editors and for be
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by noctuid 8y ago
I've argued that parinfer complicates lisp editing. Some notes critiquing parinfer: https://github.com/noctuid/parinfer-notes
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by noctuid 10y ago
That's what you do with a mouse though. With a keyboard, you can move by semantic units (like a paragraph or function), use fuzzy search to jump to a specific function, etc.
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by noctuid 10y ago
It's not just that using the mouse is slow. The mouse is also dumb. By that I mean that you can't tell it to take intelligent actions like jump to/select/delete a particular semantic unit (e.g. a sentence). Using the key
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by noctuid 10y ago
A b-boy is a term for a male breaker. Wikipedia does a pretty good job explaining "breakdancing" and "b-boying": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B-boying#Terminology
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by noctuid 10y ago
> they stopped paying attention I don't think that you've been paying attention to recent Common Lisp libraries or recent lisps. Lisp has never stopped evolving and continues to take ideas from other languages.
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by noctuid 10y ago
> as if making everything a function call solves all problems There are also special forms and macros. > not how many functions you define I've never seen anyone argue that this is what makes lisp good.
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by noctuid 10y ago
What's the problem with anaphoric macros?
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by noctuid 10y ago
Sure I agree that both are examples of real software written in scheme.
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by noctuid 10y ago
See GuixSD: https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/ Edit: remove useless commentary
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by noctuid 10y ago
I agree. I looked at quite a few dotfile managers, and all of them were overly complicated and couldn't replace my use of stow. Stow was not created as a "dotfiles manager" though, and keeping dotfiles seperate from all the o
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by noctuid 11y ago
You probably want helm. I generally just have one key that considers open buffers, files in the current directory, recently used files, and then locate. You can also use it with ag or find or whatever. Helm is closer to vim's Unite (wh