dotfiles VS lispyville

The colors are mostly from zenburn

https://github.com/fiddlerwoaroof/dotfiles/blob/master/emacs...

Yeah, that’s definitely where I’ve ended up: I have a lot of lisp code, but it’s more of a toolbox for my shell (REPL) than standalone programs.

However, I’ve settled on a pattern that works pretty well for the few small tools I write: https://github.com/fiddlerwoaroof/dotfiles/blob/18cecfc93bcf...

I use these keys every day for just about every sort of balanced delimiter manipulation I do in any language: https://github.com/fiddlerwoaroof/dotfiles/blob/eff889f0b749...

A little below I bind this key map to the “,” prefix and I’ve found my layout of paredit commands pretty ergonomic to use long-term.

What made a difference for me was figuring out the right keybindings. The default keybindings in emacs weren’t very ergonomic and so I came up with a more convenient set of keybindings (for evil-mode, since I prefer vim-style editing). They follow a nice pattern on the keyboard and made a huge difference.

I eventually adapted them so I could have relatively consistent keybindings across vim/emacs/VSCode/IntelliJ and the results are here:

https://github.com/fiddlerwoaroof/dotfiles/blob/b13240a42fa4...

If you understand the elisp keybinding notation, it’s possible to use the C-, ones in VSCode.

Yeah, I don’t have home-manager generate configurations for vim. I have home-manager generate a symlink to my version-controlled vimrc. This way I get the quick setup benefits of home-manager without the slow reload times.

Incidentally, I just polished my script for working around that issue: https://github.com/fiddlerwoaroof/dotfiles/blob/master/scrip...

https://github.com/fiddlerwoaroof/dotfiles/blob/master/emacs.d/lisp/configurations/evil-conf.el#L67-L143

Noctuid, of `general.el` fame, has a related package which integrates lispy's approach with `evil.el` better.

https://github.com/noctuid/lispyville

Yes, this or lispyville

Try https://github.com/noctuid/lispyville.

I've had some issues with paredit, like ending up with a stray orphaned paren that was impossible to delete (this has happened more times than I care to admit). So a while ago I started shopping around and tried out lispyville (evil-mode FTW). Yes, the initial setup was a little more involved, but once I figured out the Key themes I wanted, it was golden. Never looked back. The main README here on the lispyville github repo explains the various Key themes and how to enabled them. I enabled most of them, and I think the only thing I added was a hook for lispy-stringify. The awesome thing is we have lots of choices, though, so whatever works for you is what you should use.