This is a hack, and I look forward to somebody posting a real answer, but I have

(defun insert-zero-width-space ()
  (interactive)
  (insert-char #x200b))

Aaaah, nice! That's a great idea. I think I can use this for something else I've been struggling with too. Thank you! 😊

It's probably something in your config. If I run /usr/bin/emacs -nw -Q foo.clj the first buffer is foo.clj. It also works for me with my config (without -Q). That's not helping you fix your problem but at least a pointer that it's not normal ;)

It's "raise"

Aha!

So cljr-raise-sexp for instance, or paredit-raise-sexp

The difference between these two is that the clj-refactor version knows that #inst "2022" is one expression, as an example.

Thanks magnars!

you can mark symbol into < > to select multiple like #inst "2022" , then raise will raise them together. I do this a lot. Also there is 2 flavors to raise r and R, both are useful 😛

while you are marking things, d is still available to swap the direction, < and > swap their meaning then, it's joyful