Comment by umanwizard
19 days ago
One reason emacs is popular for lisp programming is that the paredit package (or its newer competitor smartparens) do basically exactly what you describe: structural editing of sexp-based languages.
19 days ago
One reason emacs is popular for lisp programming is that the paredit package (or its newer competitor smartparens) do basically exactly what you describe: structural editing of sexp-based languages.
There's also parinfer, which does pretty much everything for you. I've heard some people don't like it because they dislike auto-insertion of text. Maybe that's more like what OP expected.