symex.el
hy
symex.el | hy | |
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18 | 52 | |
255 | 4,778 | |
1.2% | 0.6% | |
6.2 | 9.2 | |
16 days ago | about 11 hours ago | |
Emacs Lisp | Python | |
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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symex.el
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Sapling: A highly experimental vi-inspired editor where you edit code, not text
I also recommend symex[1]. Although it is more “locked-in” to s-expressions than other solutions (which takes some getting used to at first), I find that for me this is exactly what makes movement feel much more intuitive and editing much more precise.
The one thing I don’t like is that symex depends on so many other plugins (especially Evil, which I am trying to swap out with the more lightweight meow), but this will apparently change soon. They are also working towards support for non-Lisp languages via tree-sitter, but I don’t know how well it works.
[1]: https://github.com/drym-org/symex.el
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We've launched Attribution Based Economics
The pilot projects (including Symex.el) are accepting financial contributions and will distribute them to sources of value including contributors and antecedent projects in a process that we all have a say in.
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Tree-sitter starter guide
This is a really useful synopsis. symex has recently had TS support merged in, and apparently includes navigation and structural editing similar to its lisp-like language capabilities. I think it's still early going and I haven't tested, but may be worth a look.
- Learn Lisp the Hard Way
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What modal sexp editing mode should I switch to?
Has anyone used symex.el without evil? I just learned it can be use with vanilla emacs (despite the 2nd word in its tagline). I also learned they have a tree-sitter branch which will expand its powers to many languages.
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Advice on config hacking / yak shaving / bikeshedding
I started out using evil, but now I mostly use Symex. (Structural editing. non-lisps support wip for those sad moments you can't use lisp). For now depends on evil, but could be separated.
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You are invited to the First Congress for Attribution-Based Economics!
The purpose of this congress is to engage in the process of Dialectical Inheritance Attribution, which is a collective process by which we apply agreed-upon standards to the task of appraising and attributing the value of work done in the world. At this initial congress, there are two open source projects on the agenda to be appraised: Symex.el which is an Emacs extension, and Qi, which is a functional DSL on the Racket platform.
- symex.el: An evil way to edit Lisp symbolic expressions ("symexes") as trees in Emacs
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paredit based on treesitter
symex has a branch that’s been working on integrating with tree-sitter.
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Paredit 25 Released
If you want to go nuts with structural editing you may also want to check out symex mode: https://github.com/drym-org/symex.el
It uses paredit (among others) for its low level functionality, but the vim-style modal interface allows you to manipulate the tree structure with single keystrokes in a precise and very expressive way. Keep in mind that you have to actively learn how to use it and it will feel awkward at first (similar to how vim feels for beginners), but I find the editing experience very pleasent and smooth after I got used to it.
Another thing I really like about it is that you can still switch to normal mode and it doesn’t get in your way like other plugins where I had to change my keybindings all the time because the amount of convenient shortcuts is still quite limited in the end. This modal switching to different editing contexts (or languages?) is something I feel should be explored much further.
hy
- A dialect of Lisp that's embedded in Python
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How to Write a (Lisp) Interpreter (In Python)
Not exactly the same (doesn't embed into the source like this did), but I believe Hylang[0] is the best Lisp package available for modern Python.
[0] https://github.com/hylang/hy
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Sapling: A highly experimental vi-inspired editor where you edit code, not text
Isn't that a bit what hy (https://hylang.org/) tries to do ? AIUI it is a lisp interacting directly with the AST of Python, allowing seamless interop: Python modules can be used from hy and vice versa, everything is transparent.
- Hylang, a Lisp dialect embedded in Python
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Hissp
I’ve been keeping loose tabs on this and Hy[1] for a while, but I’ve had some trouble figuring out the major differences between them and the use-cases for either. Would love to see an in-depth comparison in the form of a blog post sometime (though maybe the answer here is to do the research and write one up myself).
1: https://hylang.org
- Hy
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Ask HN: Is SICP/HtDP still worth reading in 2023? Any alternatives?
“Python is for scientists. Lisp is for engineers.”
Then what does that make Hy language?
https://hylang.org/
Re Languages with lots of example code and LLM’s
With translators or things like Hy lang, one could get the LLM’s to solve your problem in Python before converting it to another form. Then, you just need a translator. If lacking one, it’s easy to translate by hand.
The practicality of this concept will probably vary by use case. My experiments had GPT doing sketching, implementations, boilerplate, and even porting Python to Rust. A legally-clear LLM trained on multiple languages could probably be fine-tuned to do Python to LISP conversions. If not, Hy might be a stepping stone, too.
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Sharing Saturday #469
You could say so: I've been maintaining the compiler since 2016 ;). Infinitesimal Quest 2 + ε (SQ) exists more to advance Hy than for its own sake.
- What if: python without commas
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Best implementation of CL for learning purposes
If you are using Python - you might find Hylang (https://hylang.org) interesting.
What are some alternatives?
lispy - Short and sweet LISP editing
hissp - It's Python with a Lissp.
elisp-tree-sitter - Emacs Lisp bindings for tree-sitter
Fennel - Lua Lisp Language
smartparens - Minor mode for Emacs that deals with parens pairs and tries to be smart about it.
babashka - Native, fast starting Clojure interpreter for scripting
gopcaml-mode
eso-light-attack-weave - This is a macro for the game Elder Scrolls Online
emacs - Mirror of GNU Emacs
Carp - A statically typed lisp, without a GC, for real-time applications.
typescript.el - TypeScript-support for Emacs
hebigo - 蛇語(HEH-bee-go): An indentation-based skin for Hissp.