Hmm, I wonder if having , e n in Spacemacs would be a good addition (assuming I didn't add it already). It seems a more logical way to think about that action, whereas buffer is more generic and implementation specific to Emacs.
@lee if you see calva commands for those key bindings, let me know. You should be able to do SPC SPC
and type calva paredit or something like that. If I spot anything, I'll let you know.