Yesterday Kototama commented about another neat paredit addition: duplicating sexps. This is my take on that:
(defun paredit--is-at-start-of-sexp () (and (looking-at "(\\|\\[") (not (nth 3 (syntax-ppss))) ;; inside string (not (nth 4 (syntax-ppss))))) ;; inside comment (defun paredit-duplicate-closest-sexp () (interactive) ;; skips to start of current sexp (while (not (paredit--is-at-start-of-sexp)) (paredit-backward)) (set-mark-command nil) ;; while we find sexps we move forward on the line (while (and (bounds-of-thing-at-point 'sexp) (<= (point) (car (bounds-of-thing-at-point 'sexp))) (not (= (point) (line-end-position)))) (forward-sexp) (while (looking-at " ") (forward-char))) (kill-ring-save (mark) (point)) ;; go to the next line and copy the sexprs we encountered (paredit-newline) (yank) (exchange-point-and-mark))
Like Kototama says in his blogpost, duplicating a line is very useful, but sometimes it leads to invalid sexps. In the blogpost he shows a snippet that will duplicate the sexp after point. I immediately realized I had really been wanting this.
The version listed here is a little modified: It will duplicate the sexp you are currently inside, or looking at, or looking behind at. So basically, point can be in any of these positions:
|(my sexp) ;; in front (my| sexp) ;; inside (my sexp)| ;; at the end
Insta-useful!