I have SBCL installed and running but after adding common-lisp to my .spacemacs I can’t get a connection inside Spacemacs.

My Helm bar shows “Lisp [email protected]” so Slime is loaded.

@clojer sorry I don’t know that much about SBCL - I’d suggest checking out the spacemacs glitter channel?

and I just got exposed to the magit log mode, wow it’s awesome do you guys use it here?

Fixed. I had a file open in Spacemacs while attempting to start the REPL.

oh that’s a funny problem.

I'm trying out Spacemacs and smartparens (coming from bare-bones Emacs and paredit). I'm a bit surprised by the behavior of sp-forward-slurp-sexp. (foo [|] bar) => (foo [ |bar]) (| is point) Is there a way to get it to close up that space before bar?

No easy way that I'm aware of, short of writing a custom fn and changing your keybinding to point at that.

Is this something you've encountered? If so, do you just type backspace and move on?

Yep. Doesn't bother me that much. Someone else may have a solution, though.

Thanks for confirming.

I definitely get identical behavior on the same case.

Makes me think it would be really nice to have a generalized "tighten up extra spaces" fn...

That's the stock behavior in paredit

interestingly in emacs-lisp it does the right thing

Oh? I see the same behavior: (foo bar (|) baz) => (foo bar (| baz))

oh wait... hmm... strange. I didn't see it the first time...

let me try again

oh shoot, yeah you're right... sorry I thought it worked for me first time

okay... it seems paredit-forward-slurp-sexp does the right thing, and sp-forward-slurp-sexp leaves the space

what do you use to slurp? Do you use SPC k s? or some other key?

you basically can redefine that key for lispy to use paredit-forward-slurp-sexp instead of default one.

- first you need to wrap the function, make it "lispy", so you can continuously keep slurping, e.g. SPC k s, s, s... etc.

(evil-lisp-state-enter-command paredit-forward-slurp-sexp)

that macro would create a function named evil-lisp-state-paredit-forward-slurp-sexp

- then you just bind/re-bind the key: (spacemacs/set-leader-keys "ks" 'evil-lisp-state-paredit-forward-slurp-sexp)

@grzm ☝️

@ag thanks for digging into this. When I'm using smartparens, I'm using sp-forward-slurp-sexp. I figure if I'm going to use smartparens, I should be using the smartparens commands: having two packages that do pretty much the same thing seems a step backwards to me. AFAIK, I'm not using any of the evil-mode stuff. Though, at this point (maybe it's too early to call? been trying for a week or so) I'm not sure what smartparens gives me over paredit. I like the fact that it's actually maintained, and I hear it's much more configurable, but the teething period is getting to me.