Re: How to delete the parens around a sexp?

[Andreas Röhler]

Am 22.09.2015 um 09:40 schrieb Marcin Borkowski:
> Hi list,
>
> I'd like to transform this:
>
> -!-(some gibberish)
>
> into this:
>
> -!-some gibberish
>
> I assume there's no function in Elisp for that, and it's trivial to
> write one, but I just wanted to make sure before I code it.  raise-sexp
> doesn't work, since it gobbles "gibberish" in the above example unless
> given a prefix argument, and if you replace "some gibberish" with an
> actual sentence, counting words manually is no fun.
>
> (Note: before anyone tells me how such a transformation doesn't make
> sense: I need it for writing in a natural language.)
>
> TIA,

thing-at-point-utils toolkit

provides

ar-trim-parentized-atpt

ar-trim-delimited-atpt

Works from inside the parentized form to curb.
ar-trim-...  takes any known --customized-- delimiter, i.e. the first found.

https://github.com/andreas-roehler/thing-at-point-utils