Paredit is an emacs minor mode for controlled editing of s-expressions.
Paredit keeps parentheses balanced while editing Lisp source code.
Questions tagged [paredit]
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Move form up and down on paredit mode
I've been using cursive's Structural Editing (a paredit-like mode for Intellij and Cursive) and I found a nice command there called move form-up (and down).
Move form up does this (the | is the point):
(+ 1 |(+ 2 3) 4) => (+ (+ 2 3) 1 4)
and Move…
Rodrigo Flores
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Is there a command for tidying trailing parentheses?
When editing lisp code, I often end up with trailing parentheses scattered around (assuming | is point):
(defun example-function ()
(let ((x (+ 1 1)))
(when x
(message x)|
)
))
Are there any convenience commands for fixing…
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fill-paragraph (`M-q`) for s-expressions?
With M-q (aka fill-paragraph), it is possible to format a single line of text nicely.
Is there a command or function which does a similar thing for lisps s-expressions?
It should break one-liner lisp expression where it is reasonable.
A command or…
jue
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What is the reverse command to paredit-wrap-around?
I am using paredit. Sometimes I accidentely wrap something in curly braces or I have a situation where I want unwrap something for some other reason? What ist the right command to use when undo does not work?
I am looking for a command which turns…
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How to do paredit-kill backwards?
Most everyone who uses paredit has used paredit-kill (i.e., C-k), which allows one to delete a line forwards whilst keeping delimiters balanced properly. But how does one do this in the reverse direction? When one does C-0 C-k, which is something…
GDP2
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hippie-expand disturbes paredit
paredit restricts my editing freedom to guarantee me that my s-expressions are never unbalanced. Unfortunately, hippie-expand doesn't care a bit about rules and manages to disturb the balance by expanding to syntactically wrong text (e.g. text…
user2005
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Paredit doesn't close {
I am using paredit. It terminates ( and [ and " fine, but does not close the { in any modes. How can i configure it to do this too? I have emacs24.
user12021
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Editing HTML structurally
Recently I've done a lot of work cleaning up some HTML files that were generated by LibreOffice. It made me really wish for a way to edit the document structure, à la paredit-mode.
For example, for some reason LibreOffice rendered one particular…
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How to move up to the ending parenthesis of the enclosing list (if it exists)?
In paredit mode, C-M-u (paredit-backward-up) is used to move the point
backward up out of the enclosing list
The point is parked at the beginning parenthesis of the enclosing list. My question is:
How to move up one level of sexp similarly but…
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Key map and vector key sequence
paredit.el has the following example code for setting a keybinding:
https://github.com/emacsmirror/paredit/blob/8330a41e8188fe18d3fa805bb9aa529f015318e8/paredit.el#L54
(eval-after-load 'paredit
'(progn
(define-key paredit-mode-map…
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How to swap s-expressions with paredit?
I often need to swap s-expressions. How can I do that with paredit? I want to do things like the following:
(list |1 0)
(list 0 |1)
or:
(list 1 |0)
(list |0 1)
Antoine
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Lispy movement commands that treat atoms and parenthesized s-expressions the same?
lispy-flow almost does what I want. The problem is, though it descends into a parenthesized sexp, it does so only if that parenthesized sexp contains another parenthesized sexp. The fact that it skips over atoms is problematic: there are times when…
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Cannot install Paredit
I am new to emacs.
I want to install paredit mode on emacs 24. I am using Melpa.
When i do M-x package-install RET paredit RET or try to install it from package-list-package i see the error in the minibuffer:
Cannot open load file: no such file or…
user12021
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How do I disable paredit-ret in sly-mrepl*?
I am trying to migrate from slime to sly. But I want to use paredit in sly-mrepl. Naive enabling of paredit in sly-mrepl leads to a problem where pressing RET in repl calls paredit-ret. But I want to call sly-mrepl-return.
How do I disable…
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How can I insert the backslash character ( \ ) before quotation marks (" ") in Emacs?
I am running Emacs and writing on the scratch-buffer. This is my config file.
After executing describe-mode, this is the list of minor modes running:
Enabled minor modes: Auto-Composition Auto-Compression Auto-Encryption
Blink-Cursor Column-Number…
Pedro Delfino
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