How to delete extra parens in Paredit mode?

Question

I'm using Paredit in Emacs to edit Lisp code. How do I delete an extra pair of parens that I accidentally inserted? Paredit does not allow this without extra commands.

((square 5)) into (square 5)

Answer 1

This is called paredit-splice-sexp, keybinding is M-s. Take a look at the paredit cheat sheet here.

Answer 2

Read up on barfage and slurpage.

You can also installed "paredit-menu.el" which provides a menu of actions, with tooltips that show you their effects.

Paredit occasionally gets you into a situation when the easiest thing to do is to turn it off, fix everything and turn it on again. However, it is worth the effort.