Parinfer

Raised as a usability problem by 6 people on Hacker News over 10 years (2016–2025), in 5 threads.

People raised many different problems with Parinfer, 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 7 complaints

Pasting code into Parinfer-edited files causes whitespace changes that confuse its editing2025-01-22
Undo fights with Parinfer and loops endlessly until interrupted with Ctrl-C2025-01-21
Breaks working code when editing other people's badly indented files, and struggles with very long files2025-01-20
Inferred parentheses in multi-line code are wrong, forcing manual joining of lines2022-07-30
Indentation-based inference causes unnecessary problems for editing Lisp code2018-07-29
Fights edits and sometimes creates syntax errors while typing2017-03-26
Unpredictably steals and inserts closing brackets, working only sometimes2016-12-19