Symex Mode: Editing Lisp Code in a Vim-like Way

This talk introduces Symex Mode, which is a way to edit Lisp code in a Vim-like way, as an alternative to packages like paredit and lispy. Symex mode is based on a DSL that can express arbitrary tree navigations, the most common and useful of which are accessible via a modal interface implemented using the excellent Hydra package.

Other topics we may cover if there is time: a teaser of "epistemic mode," a larger framework that Symex mode is a part of, and how it relates to Vim vs Emacs, and writing blurbs about yourself in the third person.

About the speaker:

Our presenter Siddhartha "Sid" Kasivajhula is the (at present) lone denizen at drym.org. He tells himself that he's working on deep, new solutions to the problems of the world, economic solutions that are founded in a new epistemology, that is, solutions to high level problems of social order that at the same time derive from low-level insights about the nature of existence.

Sid likes to convince himself that he's doing these things, but he really spends most of his time hacking his Emacs configuration, and now faced with increased questions about his productive output, feels that he needs to have something to show for it.