The State of Structural Editing in Emacs?

• symex.el

  18 254 6.2 Emacs Lisp

  An intuitive way to edit Lisp symbolic expressions ("symexes") structurally 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.

• gopcaml-mode

  2 - -

Recently, a video about GopCaml-mode has been made and published on this subreddit. The package itself is pretty good, and it left me wondering: What is the state of structural editing in Emacs, right now?

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• lispy

  21 1,184 0.0 Emacs Lisp

  Short and sweet LISP editing

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.

• evil-textobj-tree-sitter

  12 184 6.6 Scheme

  Tree-sitter powered textobjects for evil mode in Emacs

not lsp, treesitter is the way to go. lsp does not provide AST ATM. There is already https://github.com/meain/evil-textobj-tree-sitter . As a side note, smartparens work on non-lispy code. I am very happy with using in combination with evil-cleverparens.

• symex-ts

  3 8 1.8 Emacs Lisp

  An experimental Symex.el-like package using tree sitter

I'm currently working on this (see https://github.com/polaris64/symex-ts).

• things.el

  4 51 2.6 Emacs Lisp

  Extensions to thingatpt.el

I've planned to use treesitter in things.el for a long time, but another package will likely become useful long before I have time to do this.

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