Clojurians Log v2

Sometimes I manually select closing paren, copy it to buffer and paste somewhere else to achieve balance. I know it’s dirty technique, but works.

the dirty solution to unbalanced parens with cursive paredit is just copying and pasting closing parens

In addition to “Extend Selection” + backspace, you can also simply “backspace”; With paredit (what I use) it always does the right thing (at least from my perspective); But I agree coming from another language it can be tempting to hold Shift + arrow keys to select portions of the code; Just don’t 🙂 It can take a few weeks to break that muscle memory; I’ve forgotten those times so much that now it’s super hard to code without at least “Extend Selection” in another language; For example, XCode doesn’t have “Extend Selection”, so if I have to write Swift, I use AppCode (by IntelliJ) and use Extend Selection, copy/paste/delete all the time (since there’s no easy+proper structural movement).