Emacs Rocks! Episode 14: Paredit

Why HN readers recommended it

Repeatedly offered as the quickest, most convincing demo of structured editing and why Lisp programmers love paredit.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

emacsrocks

Topic

structural editing with paredit

Format

tutorial

Level

intro

HN recommenders in dataset

8

HN mentions in dataset

9

Recommendation years in dataset

2013–2022

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From the original HN conversations

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• For those not familiar with Emacs, IntelliJ IDEA with La Clojure is also an okay choice. I use IDEA for Python, Java and Scala; and still switch to Emacs when I code in Clojure. The reason is that Emacs has really strong toolset for LISP, …

• I'll be honest with you: I'm maybe not the one to give proper advice on paredit. I'm using C# on my day job, and as such have no use for paredit (I do use ViEmu for VS though, which makes VS bearable) for most of …

• There's a structured editing mode for Emacs called Paredit, to use for s-expression languages like Lisp, Racket, Clojure. Since the AST for such languages is s-expressions, and some people struggle with parens, this is an interesting "fun size" example of editing the AST. The thing …