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I don't want to be a downer, but the visual presentation is awful, I could not work with the nesting direction changing all the time.

If there were a good language-specific pretty printer, and it looked like regular text in the language, I could probably stomach it.

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I've used it to write web pages for nearly a year, so I believe we can. The problem is, like people may hate using indentations, they just hate. There's also a text version of Cirru http://text.cirru.org , but withouth benefits of structural editing.

I'll give it a try instead of just criticizing it. :- )

I've used Paredit, which is similar in concept; I think it's really cool if it can be generalized well to languages which aren't LISP.

Maybe Prettier? It's for JavaScript:

https://github.com/jlongster/prettier https://twitter.com/search?q=atom%20prettier&src=typd

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