Adding/Making it an editor

[lgrapenthin]

Call me crazy, but I'm optimistic that with a few additions this tool could by 95% replace the Emacs/Nrepl workflow and would do better.

• A widget that shows top level forms of a namespace file.
• Each form is abbreviated, but one form is selected and fully visible.
• You have up and down controls to skip through forms.
• You can hold a form and move it down/up
• You can add a form after the current form
• You can edit the current form
• After editing, the form is evaluated immediately and only written to disk if it evaluates w/o exception. --- Otherwise you get a chance to correct it
• An edited form can optionally be written w/o evaluation

How realistic? Good idea? Bad idea? I could dedicate some time to work on this by the end of the year.

[bhauman]

This is super interesting.

Writing to disk on eval is a bit tricky, I could maybe find a place to register a one time after eval hook, but its pretty easy, and probably safer, to just view the last evaluated expression and intentionally invoke a command to write it in its proper place.

It should be possible to initially develop this as an external add-on widget.

[aleksandersumowski]

potentially useful is this talk describing different Lisp editor ideas over the years:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0Tsa3smr1w&feature=youtu.be