please don't bind C-<left, right>

[fommil]

I do this after loading the default bindings

  (bind-key "C-<left>" nil smartparens-mode-map)
  (bind-key "C-<right>" nil smartparens-mode-map)

and I think it catches out many people who I introduce to smart-parens. These key bindings are a little too popular for other purposes to be rebound the way you're doing, IMHO.

[Fuco1]

I'm not binding anything, you have to enable it in customization. If you enable them, the bindings follow paredit.

Smartparents supports customizable "keybinding sets", if you think there is some which would be better for beginners, I'm happy to add third type.

See the variable sp-base-key-bindings.

[fommil]

I mean specifically in the default call to (sp-use-smartparens-bindings)

[Fuco1]

Okey, I still think it would be better to add another set or customization option. If only with respect to compatibility and my own selfish lazyness.

For the paredit users there's the paredit set, for users who want something like paredit but not quite (e.g. never used paredit so they don't care) there is the smartparents set which is basically what I use (with some changes wrt paredit which I didn't quite like). I don't know what C-<left> should do otherwise, so I can't argue about that with you. But I see no problem with some "CUA" set or whatever we want to call it.

[fommil]

yeah, that'd be great! And since its the one that newbies will likely see, can it be the default? :-D

FYI, these are the bindings I use

  (bind-key "s-<delete>" 'sp-kill-sexp smartparens-mode-map)
  (bind-key "s-<backspace>" 'sp-backward-kill-sexp smartparens-mode-map)
  (bind-key "s-<home>" 'sp-beginning-of-sexp smartparens-mode-map)
  (bind-key "s-<end>" 'sp-end-of-sexp smartparens-mode-map)
  (bind-key "s-<up>" 'sp-beginning-of-previous-sexp smartparens-mode-map)
  ;; sp-next-sp could be better https://github.com/Fuco1/smartparens/issues/541
  (bind-key "s-<down>" 'sp-next-sexp smartparens-mode-map)
  (bind-key "s-<left>" 'sp-backward-up-sexp smartparens-mode-map)
  (bind-key "s-<right>" 'sp-down-sexp smartparens-mode-map)

[fommil]

did you ever do anything on this? I've added a recommendation section to the ensime docs telling people to install smartparens 😄 http://ensime.github.io//editors/emacs/hacks/#smart-parentheses

[Fuco1]

Hi. Are you still interested in this?

[fommil]

yup, it would be great to remove these from the default binding.