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Emacs Rocks! Episode 14: Paredit

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What it is

A three-minute Emacs Rocks screencast by Magnar Sveen demonstrating paredit, which edits Lisp code structurally as a tree of s-expressions rather than characters.

Why Hacker News recommends it

Repeatedly offered as the quickest, most convincing demo of structured editing and why Lisp programmers love paredit.

  • 8 people recommended it
  • 7 different months
  • 1 strong recommendations
  • first 2013, last 2022

What HN commenters said

  1. “For a short and enthusiastic video on paredit, see”

    Short enthusiastic video on paredit

    Kaali, 2013-06 · Strong recommendation · in “Clojure Cookbook is now accepting contributions”

  2. “it's well worth the 3:40.”

    Short episode worth watching to learn paredit

    wnesensohn, 2013-07 · Recommendation · in “A preview of LightTable 0.5”

  3. “Magnar Sveen has a great video about this at”

    Great video on paredit adoption and structured editing

    6cxs2hd6, 2013-12 · Recommendation · in “Lamdu - towards the next generation IDE”

  4. “And here is a short minute paredit mode explanation”

    Short paredit explanation

    JackMorgan, 2013-12 · Recommendation · in “Emacs users are like Terry Pratchett’s Igors”

  5. “Also, here's a great video of Paredit in action”

    Paredit in action

    tikhonj, 2014-08 · Recommendation · in “An editor for composed programs”

  6. “You end up manipulating the "tree" of code vs the characters on a line.”

    Shows manipulating code as a tree with paredit

    peterhadlaw, 2017-05 · Recommendation · in “Is Clojure dying, and what has Ruby got to do with it?”

  7. “here is a good example of what i mean [0].”

    Good example of structured editing for Lisp

    medo-bear, 2022-10 · Recommendation · in “The Hidden Origins of Lisp (2015)”

  8. “It shows how incredible paredit is.”

    Demonstrates how powerful paredit is for structural editing of Lisp.

    gabiruh, 2022-11 · Recommendation · in “Paredit 25 released (after 8 years)”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: emacs, paredit, lisp, structured editing, screencast

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