Pair selecting in cond

[jramosg]

Pair Selecting in cond

Overview

Calva should support smart pair selection in cond, allowing you to select entire test/expression pairs with a single selection operation.

(cond
  test1 expr1     ; entire pair selected together
  test2 expr2     ; entire pair selected together
  test3 expr3)    ; entire pair selected together

How It Works

When your cursor is positioned on either element of a pair:

• Selecting expands to include both the test and expression
• Grow selection considers the pair as a single logical unit
• This pairs behavior is consistent with existing support for let bindings

Related Features

This feature complements existing pair selection

Benefits

• Faster navigation and editing of conditional logic
• Consistent editing across related pairs
• Improved code refactoring workflow

[PEZ]

Sweet! I miss this one so often! Also for case, and maybe the most for cond-> and cond->>. =) But please file such things as separate issues so that we don't creep the scope of this beautifully target issue.

[jramosg]

yes, I initially create a single one but I realized they are quite different because of how they handle defaults, the result-expr and result-fn in condp, etc.

[PEZ]

Agreed. This is why it hasn't been done yet. I couldn't figure out at the time how to do it without tripping myself and creating a mess.

[jramosg]

I think it has turned out quite well, let me know what you think! I’m open to any suggestions or improvements you might have.

• cond (Add pair selecting support for cond forms #2992)
• cond->/cond->> (Add pair selecting support for cond-> and cond->> forms #2996)

I'll also try with case and conp