expand-region.el

I haven't been active in Emacs world for a couple of years, but https://github.com/magnars/expand-region.el has been there for a while. I think the new code is right in lsp-mode and called lsp-extend-selection. VSCode has "Expand Selection". Mathematica has ctrl-. (http://xahlee.info/emacs/emacs/syntax_tree_walk.html) Zed has "select enclosing symbol" but that seems to jump to function level expansion immediately, I didn't see anything more gradual there.

Thanks, I will give paredit a shot. I'm a regular emacs user, but I normally use expand-region[1] and cut/paste to edit lisp code. Expand-region usually knows what I want to move around after just one or two calls, only requires one key binding, and has visual feedback. And it works great in every language I have used. [1] https://github.com/magnars/expand-region.el

Yeah, it's a pretty good idea. I've been using lisp and expand-region[1] and it just makes this frame-based editing dream come alive. I've just recorded a video where I'll refactor some code for fun. This code adds two arrays one has strings in it like ["1" "2" "3"] the other has numbers like [1 2 3]. Video: https://s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/photoblobs/2017-06-22_003... I do have a couple typos / mis-compiles but that's sort of par for the course. Hope you enjoy! [1] - https://github.com/magnars/expand-region.el

Links to some of the tools used clojure and clojurescript https://github.com/clojure-emacs/clj-refactor.el (refactoring) https://github.com/clojure-emacs/cider (IDE) https://github.com/bhauman/lein-figwheel (code reloading) emacs https://github.com/magit/magit (the interface to Git) https://github.com/abo-abo/avy (jumping around) https://github.com/magnars/expand-region.el (marking stuff) https://github.com/magnars/multiple-cursors.el (placing cursors at similar stuff and editing all at once)

Great that you are a Spacemacs user now and glad that you like my tutorials. So, could you be more specific about how vim-sexp works? If you want to visual select sexp from symbol and expanding outward, uses expand-region: https://github.com/magnars/expand-region.el. Same for string. Then you can use smartparens: https://github.com/Fuco1/smartparens to wrap around by simply pressing "(". It is all in Spacemacs now, and you can explore further with evil-lisp-state commands, bound to ", k".

https://github.com/magnars/expand-region.el is a nice addition, especially for non-sexp languages. It's like Mathematica's "C-."

For my fellow emacs users, our version (by Magnar Sveen) is here: https://github.com/magnars/expand-region.el

Emacs has a nice package called expand-region[1] which works in a similar, although more context-sensitive fashion. There's a nice intro screencast by Emacs Rocks[2] as well. The context-sensitivity is handled by having a list of expansion/contraction functions to try in sequence, so your region grows outwards by different units. Or you can specify a specific expansion function (like, er/mark-outside-python-string) upfront. As an example, the expand function list I have for a python buffer open is: (er/mark-word er/mark-symbol er/mark-symbol-with-prefix er/mark-next-accessor er/mark-method-call er/mark-inside-pairs er/mark-outside-pairs er/mark-comment er/mark-inside-python-string er/mark-outside-python-string er/mark-python-statement er/mark-python-block er/mark-python-block-and-decorat

Some Emacs extensions that implement Sublime Text features (and IMHO are better than their ST equivalents): mark-multiple[1] and CUA (builtin) for multiple cursors, helm[2] (formerly "anything") for file selection that allows quick previewing (C-z) and much much more, mini-map[3], and expand-region[4] (not sure if this is inspired by a ST feature but it is nice nonetheless). [1] https://github.com/magnars/mark-multiple.el Video: http://emacsrocks.com/e08.html [2] https://github.com/emacs-helm/helm [3] http://www.emacswiki.org/MiniMap [4] https://github.com/magnars/expand-region.el Video: http://emacsrocks.com/e09.html