Parinfer in Emacs Lisp

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Parinfer is impressive, and I'm sure a lot of people will benefit from its use.

That said, I feel that this is a step in the wrong direction w.r.t. Lisp editing, because it focuses on vim-style text/line editing, and automatically rewriting structure around it. Editing with Parinfer or Lispy allows for structural manipulation, which is more usable and efficient IMO.

> Editing with Parinfer or Lispy allows for structural manipulation, which is more usable and efficient IMO.

Are you sure you don't mean paredit or Lispy?

I'm a paredit user myself, and while it's very impressive and (obviously) the best mode for lisp ever, I recall it's learning curve being somewhat steep.

I think the author mentioned this was a mode trying to create an easier learning curve for lisp novices, which in itself isn't a bad goal.

Yes, thanks, I meant Paredit.

There was not the best reception of this in the Emacs community (at least on Reddit). A lot of people thought the more authentic and useful solutions are paredit / smartparens. Interesting to see the adoption of this in the Emacs community which is arguably one of the largest lisp communities.

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