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vim-sexp

Precision Editing for S-expressions

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Precision Editing for S-expressions

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Observed mentions: 2013-12-15 19:35:30 UTC to 2015-05-05 02:06:13 UTC.

012013-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsDec 20132014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2014-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsAug 20142014-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2015-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2015-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2015-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2015-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsMay 2015

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May 20142014-05-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-06-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 20142014-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-07-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Jul 20142014-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-08-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 20142014-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-09-01 00:00:00 UTC000
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Nov 20142014-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-12-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 20142014-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
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Feb 20152015-02-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-03-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 20152015-03-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-04-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 20152015-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-05-01 00:00:00 UTC101
May 20152015-05-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-06-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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guns·Jun 1, 2014
> There might as well be no concept of "words" or "lines" in a seasoned lisp programmer's mind, there's only sexps and forms Forgive me for plugging my own project, but vim-sexp¹ provides exactly this abstraction as Vim text-objects, which in turn may be composed with _any_ of the operations in Vim. S-expressions as text-objects is an amazing marriage of ideas. For example, the sexp text object can be used equally as an argument to eval, yank, delete, change, select, move, and every other operator, builtin or user-defined, each optionally accepting a count. After that, the whole operation can be repeated on a new S-expression with a simple tap of the repeat command. Because Lisp forms are so regular, these actions are precise and highly reliable. ¹ http://github.com/guns/vim-sexp
In Why Atom Can’t Replace Vim – Learning the lesson of vi
emidln·Dec 15, 2013
Brief overview of the landscape: For clojure/clojure-py/clojurescript, I start out with vim-sexp[0] (for vim motions over sexpressions; some people prefer the more common paredit.vim[1]), rainbow-parenthesis.vim[2], and vim-clojure-static[3] (for indention rules, syntax highlighting, etc). You'll want those regardless of which way you use to interact with Clojure. On top of that, you probably want some way to access a REPL. The top contenders seem to be: fireplace[4] (NREPL-based quasi-repl) slimv[5] (SLIME for CL, Clojure, Schemes, etc) vimux[6]/tslime[7] (copies from vim registers to a tmux/screen window where you presumably run lein repl or something) fireplace works pretty well. In theory, it can pick up the rest of the clojure world's nrepl middleware for advanced features. In practice, nobody seems to be doing this. I haven't looke
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d into the codebase to figure out how to add support for various nrepl middleware, but it should be possible. slimv doesn't seem to be as popular in Clojure land. Most new development is based around nrepl, but you get some (not all) of its functionality thanks to ritz[8] being abstracted. I use vimux and normal vim shortcuts/macros to abstract my workflow. I like being able to handle cljs and clj in the same manner that I handle Python, Hy, Perl, and JavaScript. This is probably the route that requires the most vim knowledge and comfort with programming your lisp environment to make work. [0] - https://github.com/guns/vim-sexp [1] - https://github.com/vim-scripts/paredit.vim [2] - https://github.com/kien/rainbow_parentheses.vim [3] - https://github.com/guns/vim-clojure-static [4] - https://github.com/tpope/vim-fireplace [5] - https://github.com/kovisoft/slimv [6] - https://github.com/benmills/vimux [7] - https://github.com/kikijump/tslime.vim [8] - https://github.com/pallet/ritz
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