Clojurians Log v2

Its not meant to correct copy/paste errors. That's the job of the human that did the copy/paste incorrectly 🤣 Either undo the copy paste or switch off the structured editing tool and manually fix.

sometimes I switch to parinfer just to paste code and then back to paredit

As Dave, I do more copy and pasting, 1. Select a paren containing the thing I want 2. M-x expand-region 3. Kill (cut) 4. Undo the paste containing the mismatching parens 5. Yank (paste)

I feel like there should be some logic that if the parens are already mis-matched it doesn't block editing.

I use smartparens instead of paredit these days, but IIRC it's C-q ) to add a closing one, and when deleting you need to use C-u. But I know some prefer just to turn paredit off and back on again instead.

(Apologies if I'm misremembering the specific keys)

Yes, C-q allows literal character insert, so you're able to insert missing parens. C-<backspace> also lets you delete them 😊

Personally I fix copy-paste errors with copy-paste.

For obvious unballanced code, I may use Evil (vim-style) editing mode 6 visual select to fix copy/paste errors, v r <space> to visually select the paren and replace it with a blank space (my editor removes blank spaces on save) Or select a blank space and replace with a paren, e.g. v r )

If its no obvious if the code being copied is balanced, then I would paste it into a new Clojure file (or at least a rich comment form at the end of a file) This avoids messing up any other code. Or just avoid copy / pasting code 🤣