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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.
meow
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Any fun ways to learn Emacs?
Using meow:https://github.com/meow-edit/meow I actually got keybindings in Emacs that are helix-like, so I use helix for certain projects and Emacs for others.
The muscle memory transfers well.
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Helix: Release 24.03 Highlights
Thanks for the tip, meow looks interesting. I never got comfortable in evil-mode, but perhaps meow could be a gateway to trying emacs in anger.
Still waiting for kakoune/helix mode for gnu readline...
https://github.com/meow-edit/meow
https://github.com/jmorag/kakoune.el
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Emacs Commands I Got by with for Years
Also see Meow[1], [2], which adopts some ideas from god-mode.
[1]: https://github.com/meow-edit/meow
[2]: https://esrh.me/posts/2021-12-18-switching-to-meow.html
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Emacs from Scratch Part Two
You have to go further for ideal IMO.
Evil and evil-collection integrates pretty well, but Meow integrates perfectly and uses the action visible first approach.
https://github.com/meow-edit/meow
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Packages that you would like to be in emacs core ?
I think I'd rather hope for meow over Evil. It's close to Evil but embraces more of emacs' default bindings for calling commands.
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Emacs Is My New Window Manager
https://github.com/meow-edit/meow
Modal editing with seamless emacs integration avoiding the need for evil-collection type packages.
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Vile Mode (VIm Like Editing)
Repeat action (evil handles this very nicely). see: https://github.com/meow-edit/meow/discussions/414
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Devil Mode for Emacs
There's also Meow[1], which I currently use. You have to configure it first to suit your keyboard layout, but there are pre-built configs [2]
[1] https://github.com/meow-edit/meow
- Meow Modal Package mode line
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Is it possible to make god-mode turn off automatically after a command?
I was thinking about this a little more and Meow has something known as keypad mode that basically lets you call key combinations then return to Normal mode. It behaves a lot like god-mode. I just tested it out and if you install Meow you can call keypad-mode from insert and then automatically return to insert mode.
What are some alternatives?
lispy - Short and sweet LISP editing
god-mode - Minor mode for God-like command entering
elisp-tree-sitter - Emacs Lisp bindings for tree-sitter
evil-collection - A set of keybindings for evil-mode
smartparens - Minor mode for Emacs that deals with parens pairs and tries to be smart about it.
xah-fly-keys - the most efficient keybinding for emacs
gopcaml-mode
kakoune.el - A very simple simulation of the kakoune editor inside of emacs.
emacs - Mirror of GNU Emacs
doom-meow - A meow module for Doom Emacs
typescript.el - TypeScript-support for Emacs
ryo-modal - Roll your own modal mode