Paredit

Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 8 years (2015–2022), in 4 threads.

People raised many different problems with Paredit, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 5 complaints

Paredit-kill does not kill a Python function definition as expected2022-11-26
Felt like struggling against the mode's understanding of syntax instead of being helped2022-11-26
Editor lets you insert mismatched parentheses, forcing manual paren fixing2022-11-03
Editing alters file text for indentation, and the view of trees cannot be changed2017-02-07
Structural editing mode gets in the way when temporarily mangling text before fixing parens2015-09-12