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combobulate
Emacs Lisp2022–2026
mickeynp / combobulate

combobulate

Structured Editing and Navigation in Emacs with Tree-Sitter

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14Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
1.3KGitHub stars
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What it is

Structured Editing and Navigation in Emacs with Tree-Sitter

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 4:00:59 PM UTC.

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HN mentions by year14 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2022-06-02 21:01:35 UTC to 2026-08-25 06:34:48 UTC.

0123452022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments20222023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 comments20242025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 0 submissions, 5 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

* An incomplete calendar period is marked with an outlined bar. Its count is not directly comparable with a full period.

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20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC404
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC505

What Hacker News says

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combobulate (alpha quality as of 10/22): source code outline/cliff notes. from github README.rst "Emacs package that provides a standardized framework for manipulating and navigating your source code using tree sitter's concrete syntax tree " -> https://github.com/mickeynp/combobulate https://www.spacemacs.org/ with https://github.com/emacs-tree-sitter/elisp-tree-sitter then write a iterator/loop query for language(s) editing per https://tree-sitter.github.io/tree-sitter/syntax-highlightin... tad less installation heavy (sorta) but also makes use of tree-sitter syntax queries : https://www.lunarvim.org (neovim with treesitter syntax) blockman usage examples: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5539gDeAdWqeXcczWuhnBA Alternative examples / takes (per user interface): ### embedding a block of source code in a document: ** carrotsearch.ge
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thub.io/apidocs/code-blocks ** https://ckeditor.com/docs/ckeditor5/latest/features/code-blocks.html ### 'colorize blocking' (vs space endenting) : ** example code reference coloring: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0EF0VTs9Dc&list=PLtvX0WpNqnvMQbLB9j4TKbqHMmoLaoOOr ### gui block programming : ** https://mblock.makeblock.com/en-us/ ** https://developers.google.com/blockly
In Ask HN: S/W development text editor have feature colorizing every iteration?

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