speed-of-thought-lisp

Write emacs-lisp at the speed of thought.

This defines a new global minor-mode speed-of-thought-mode, which activates locally on any supported buffer. Currently, only emacs-lisp-mode buffers are supported.

The mode is quite simple, and is composed of two parts:

Abbrevs

A large number of abbrevs which expand function initials to their name. A few examples:

• wcb -> with-current-buffer
• i -> insert
• r -> require '
• a -> and

However, these are defined in a way such that they ONLY expand in a place where you would use a function, so hitting SPC after (r expands to (require ', but hitting SPC after (delete-region r will NOT expand the r, because that's obviously not a function. Furthermore, #'r will expand to #'require (note how it omits that extra quote, since it would be useless here).

Commands

It also defines four commands, which really fit into this "follow the thought-flow" way of writing. The bindings are as follows, I understand these don't fully adhere to conventions, and I'd appreciate suggestions on better bindings.

• M-RET :: Break line, and insert "()" with point in the middle.
• C-RET :: Do `forward-up-list', then do M-RET.

Hitting RET followed by a `(' was one of the most common key sequences for me while writing elisp, so giving it a quick-to-hit key was a significant improvement.

• C-c f :: Find function under point. If it is not defined, create a definition for it below the current function and leave point inside.
• C-c v :: Same, but for variable.

With these commands, you just write your code as you think of it. Once you hit a "stop-point" of sorts in your thought flow, you hit C-c f/v on any undefined functions/variables, write their definitions, and hit C-u C-SPC to go back to the main function.

Small Example

With the above (assuming you use something like paredit or electric-pair-mode), if you write:

( w t b M-RET i SPC text

You get

(with-temp-buffer (insert text))