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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.
lispy
- Sapling: A highly experimental vi-inspired editor where you edit code, not text
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What are the small reasons to try Emacs?
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.
- What packages do I need to for the best elisp editing environment?
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Any way to make lispy format works automatically?
While writing other programming languages with LSP, it formats the buffer once I hit save. Is there any way to make https://github.com/abo-abo/lispy do some equivalent behaviour?
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Let's share your top 3 packages that you can't live without.
Without any order magit, lispy and minions.
- paredit.vim – Paredit Mode: Structured Editing of Lisp S-Expressions
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Emacs/Slime equivalent of some Cider features?
I don't know cider, but...I found lispy mode a revelation in making the easy, easier.
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Why is it hard to get started with elisp in emacs
The level of interactivity in your emacs determines how easy trying emacs-lisp becomes. I suggest checking out https://github.com/abo-abo/lispy, it makes it easy to look up documentation (C-c 1 I believe) and evaluate S-expressions on the fly (keybinding is e). Also C-h f, C-h k, C-h v are always very helpful. Also check out helpful (the package), selectrum, marginalia, prescient, etc.
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Tree Sitter and the Complications of Parsing Languages
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?)
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The State of Structural Editing in Emacs?
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.
What are some alternatives?
elisp-tree-sitter - Emacs Lisp bindings for tree-sitter
smartparens - Minor mode for Emacs that deals with parens pairs and tries to be smart about it.
parinfer-rust - A Rust port of parinfer.
gopcaml-mode
emacs-config - My personal Emacs configuration
emacs - Mirror of GNU Emacs
babashka - Native, fast starting Clojure interpreter for scripting
typescript.el - TypeScript-support for Emacs
objed - Navigate and edit text objects with Emacs. Development on pause.
evil-textobj-tree-sitter - Tree-sitter powered textobjects for evil mode in Emacs