JOjoshcho·Nov 30, 2024
What does neomacs offer that emacs + lispy can't?
https://github.com/abo-abo/lispy
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lispy
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abo-abo / lispy
lispy
Short and sweet LISP editing
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2014 | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 1 | 2 |
What Hacker News says
11 sourcesInterestingly, there is a popular vim-style sexp editing mode for Emacs: https://github.com/abo-abo/lispy
In Paredit.vim – Paredit Mode: Structured Editing of Lisp S-ExpressionsI’m using lispy[1] instead of paredit and absolutely happy about it.
[1]: https://github.com/abo-abo/lispy
In Why Clojure? (2018)Have you tried Lispy [1] and it's derivatives (Lispyville if you're a vim user)? It single-handedly changed how I felt about Lisp editing.
[1] https://github.com/abo-abo/lispy
In Emacs Survey> I'd love to see examples of accomplished Lisp users on YouTube or elsewhere, to see what those code manipulations look like.
For one example, see https://github.com/abo-abo/lispy/
The author has a similar package for python, but it is not as powerful because of python's syntax.
The author has demos of some of the functionality on his youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/abo5abo/videos
In Parinfer – Simpler Lisp EditingAbo-abo/lispy: Short and sweet Lisp editing
2 points · Open discussionlispy/smartparens: FWIW, I use both. If you think they have a similar feature set, you haven't looked at lispy closely enough. It is more about making lisp editing operations frictionless, than it is just pair management.
Check out the simple overview[1], and maybe some demos[2].
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BverGxP41cE
[2] https://github.com/abo-abo/lispy#demos
swiper/helm: this is more of a personal choice, I agree. Having given both a fair shake, I find ivy more easily extensible, and I prefer the simpler look. As for the community support, there has yet to be something for only helm that I've missed in the various counsel functions.
In Emacs 25.1 releasedRelated: there are a few emacs plugins that can do structural editing for lisps.
http://danmidwood.com/content/2014/11/21/animated-paredit.ht...
https://github.com/Fuco1/smartparens
https://github.com/abo-abo/lispy
In Programmer Tooling Beyond Plain TextLispy.el – a superset of Paredit
2 points · Open discussion