Question

Is there an easy way to delete the smallest-possible non-atomic s-expression based on the cursor location? I want to turn this (the “|” is the cursor)

(defun foo (bar)
  (if bar
      |789
    (+ 456 123)))

into this

(defun foo (bar)
  |)

It seems like a useful thing to be able to do, but I couldn’t find a relevant (one-step) command on the Paredit cheat sheet.

Answer 1

I didn’t find a predefined command either.

Fortunately, with Emacs it’s really easy to implement your own.

For example:

(define-key global-map (kbd "C-c C-d") 
    (lambda () (interactive) (backward-up-list) (paredit-kill)))