The enhanced-evil-paredit package prevents parenthesis imbalance when using evil-mode with paredit. It intercepts evil-mode commands such as delete, change, and paste, blocking their execution if they would break the parenthetical structure. This guarantees that your Lisp code remains syntactically correct while retaining the editing features of evil-mode.

If this enhances your workflow, please show your support by ⭐ starring enhanced-evil-paredit-mode on GitHub to help more Emacs users discover its benefits.

Installation

To install enhanced-evil-paredit from MELPA:

1. If you haven’t already done so, add MELPA repository to your Emacs configuration.
2. Add the following code to the Emacs init file to install enhanced-evil-paredit:

;; `paredit-mode' is a requirement
(use-package paredit
  :commands paredit-mode
  :hook
  (emacs-lisp-mode . paredit-mode))

(use-package enhanced-evil-paredit
  :commands enhanced-evil-paredit-mode
  :hook (paredit-mode . enhanced-evil-paredit-mode))

Frequently asked questions

What are the differences between enhanced-evil-paredit and evil-paredit?

The enhanced-evil-paredit package is a modernized version of evil-paredit. It has been enhanced and fully functions in recent versions of Emacs (Emacs >= 28). The author decided to develop enhanced-evil-paredit because the evil-paredit package is no longer maintained and does not function in recent versions of Emacs and Evil.

Here are the enhancements in enhanced-evil-paredit:

• Handles paste using p and P, ensuring that the pasted text has balanced parentheses.
• Fix call to a non-existent function (evil-called-interactively-p), which has been replaced by (called-interactively-p 'any).
• Add new functions: enhanced-evil-paredit-backward-delete and enhanced-evil-paredit-forward-delete.
• enhanced-evil-paredit-mode only uses the paredit functions when paredit-mode is enabled. It acts as a wrapper that delegates commands to Paredit when Paredit is enabled and otherwise uses standard Evil commands. (The difference in behavior is that with paredit-mode, structural editing operations preserve balanced parentheses and Lisp structure, whereas without paredit-mode, the same operations rely on Evil motions and can disrupt parentheses and overall code structure.)
• Add lexical binding with lexical-binding: t.
• Suppress Emacs Lisp warnings and add Melpa tests.
• Refactor and improve enhanced-evil-paredit.
• Create a enhanced-evil-paredit customization group for user configuration.
• Remove Evil state change from enhanced-evil-paredit-mode.
• Improve error handling in enhanced-evil-paredit-check-region.
• Enhance docstrings.
• Remove keymap bindings that are reserved by Emacs.
• Add &optional after the end argument to make it similar to Evil functions.

• dd restores the column when there is a parentheses mismatch.

Author and License

The enhanced-evil-paredit Emacs package has been written by Roman Gonzalez and James Cherti. It is distributed under terms of the GNU General Public License version 3, or, at your choice, any later version.

Copyright (C) 2024-2026 James Cherti

Copyright (C) 2012-2015 Roman Gonzalez

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program.

Links

• enhanced-evil-paredit.el @GitHub
• enhanced-evil-paredit.el @MELPA

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