Find out a great emacs package for structural editing.
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saarin · 2022-01-23 18:37

[https://github.com/AmaiKinono/puni](https://github.com/AmaiKinono/pun
i)

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dpassen1 · 2022-01-23 20:08

Very interesting!

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fromadarkcontinent · 2022-01-23 21:08

The state of smartparens has been a concern of mine for a while I will
try this out to see if it might make a good alternative.

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jimehgeek · 2022-01-24 01:49

This looks very promising. I’m definitely gonna give it a try :)

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9bladed · 2022-01-24 05:10

By "state of smartparens" do you mean what is in the puni readme? As
one who hasn't needed to alter HTML or the like (typical lisps, org-
mode, text), can't say I've hit any bugs in smartparens but I'm always
up for some further yak shaving.

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FormerAct · 2022-01-24 08:17

Please let us know when this will be on Melpa! :)

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Kowata_Nobuko · 2022-01-24 08:59

Author here ;) It is on Melpa. I just forget to mention that in
README.

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FormerAct · 2022-01-24 09:07

Thank you! GOnna try it out!

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arthurno1 · 2022-01-24 14:06

> It takes a different approach than Puni: instead of making use of
Emacs built-in mechanisms, it creates its own extensible machine for
parsing pairs, and extends it for many languages. The result: It's
around 10k lines of code, while Puni is around 2k lines.

Yes, that is unfortunate with many 3rd party packages, they don't try
to fix broken/buggy things in Emacs or extends the built-in
functionality, but re-invent the wheel from the beginning.

Puni looks interesting.

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fromadarkcontinent · 2022-01-24 19:07

I use web mode for html, erb, slim and jinja files. The issues have
been creeping up and I was trying to solve them using tree sitter,
objed mode bindings and the like.

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nicholas_hubbard · 2022-01-24 19:25

I looked at the authors other repos and found they have a package
[clue](https://github.com/AmaiKinono/clue) for taking notes on source
code. Im gonna try it out.

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Vince_Vice · 2022-01-24 23:46

Ooh the slurping & barfing in html got me!

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_pkal · 2022-01-25 16:46

> # What does "Puni" means anyway?
>
> "punipuni"（ぷにぷに）is a Japanese mimetic word means "soft", "bouncy",
or "pillowy".
>
> If you are surrounded by punipuni things, you feel safe and
relieved. That's my feeling when using Puni: never need to worry about
messing up parentheses anymore.

Wierd name, even if I get the idea behind it. Would you be interested
in adding the pacakge to {GNU,NonGNU} ELPA?

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unhammer · 2022-01-27 13:13

Interesting! Added it to my growing [list of Emacs structural editing
modes](https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/r0i031/comment/hlxwhyu/
) :)

I like that it prefers to keep the code small and use builtin
functions. Considering the possible upcoming builtin tree-sitter
support for emacs, would it be possible to use tree-sitter functions
for puni?