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7 points by almkglor 5989 days ago | link | parent

> What's important for experienced lisp users in an IDE?

Paren balancing. This summarizes all the prophets. All else is commentary.



2 points by conanite 5982 days ago | link

the good news is that it doesn't hang any more on unbalanced parens. In fact, it highlights them in bright red! What i'd like though is auto-insert of right-parens, and auto-surround selected text. textmate does this and it's really nice, it seems dr scheme doesn't. It's really convenient for turning (expr) into (do (expr) ...)

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0 points by schtog 5984 days ago | link

True, without paren-mathcing programming lisp is teh horrors, with it it is a piece of cake.

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