A fault of modern source editors?

A fault of modern source editors?

Posted Mar 19, 2008 22:12 UTC (Wed) by quotemstr (subscriber, #45331)
In reply to: A fault of modern source editors? by dw
Parent article: Who maintains dpkg?

Try paredit-mode for Emacs when editing Lisp. It's a structured editing mode with commands that work on whole sexps instead of characters per se. For example, with the cursor represented by |:

(xyzzy (g|)) + DEL -> (xyzzy (|))

(xyzzy (|)) + DEL -> (xyzzy |)

(xyzzy |foo) + M-x paredit-forward-barf-sexp (normally C-left) -> (xyzzy) |foo

It takes a little getting used to, but it's very handle, with lots of useful shortcuts; plus, when using it, the resulting code is always well-formed.

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