ghci-ng VS lispy

I've only dabbled with GHCI. I've used it as a standalone REPL for trying out small things, the same way I'd use a Python or Javascript REPL. I haven't used the REPL /the/ developer interface to the program. In Clojure, I would (1) start a REPL server, (2) connect to it from my editor, and (3) send expressions to it. I didn't develop Haskell that way, though I think it was possible with Intero[1].

Within the Clojure community, there's a perception that the Clojure REPL is one of its strongest selling points[2].

Are you using the REPL actively when developing?

[1]: https://github.com/chrisdone/intero#readme

Some killer features in Emacs, which I would recommend checking out, is imenu and movement by s-expression (functions like forward-sexp). These are built into Emacs and make navigating across or inside blocks of code very easy. I have also seen that lispy, which is usually used for Lisp code also supports Python. Again I can't speak to any specifics about how well these things work for Python devs.

Without any order magit, lispy and minions.

Emacs seems to attract quite a lot of people who want structural code editing. We now have * paredit * smartparens * evil-cleverparens * lispy * symex * combobulate (more?)

Obviously, we have packages like Paredit and Lispy, recently we got SymEx, but these are all for the Lisp family of languages, where syntactic redundancy is very high because of the homoiconicity.

Of course, in the actual file it's on one line, like this (Lispy easily converts between the one-line and multi-line formats with a single keypress):

I wasnt aware of https://github.com/abo-abo/lispy but thats a big package. This is simply to bring up doc at point for symbol at point either via a timer or a hotkey. And looking at it, yes, lispy does! I'll look at that. Thanks for the heads up.

You may also like https://github.com/abo-abo/lispy then : )