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What do people think about paredit vs. just using the regular sexp editing commands (https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Pa...)? Especially when you rebind those to easier key combos.

Honestly I feel like those are enough for 90% of what I'm doing, and for now learning Paredit/infer is low on the priority list. Is it worth moving it up?




I use (Neo)Vim which only has minimal Lisp support built in. I started using Parinfer and it made a huge positive impact on my experience writing Lisp. It would probably be less impactful if I already had a good workflow and keyboard shortcuts that I liked.

But Parinfer is particularly nice in that it makes not just editing easy, but also refactoring, which historically was one of my big annoyances with s-expressions.

Maybe Paredit has features for that too, but I didn't use it (the Vim port) long enough to learn its ins and outs.


I'm a vim user and generally dislike tools typing for me at the same time that I'm typing. I've gotten some value from https://github.com/tpope/vim-sexp-mappings-for-regular-peopl... though when writing Lisp.




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