Version 2.0 of package Literate-Scratch has just been released in GNU ELPA. You can now find it in M-x list-packages RET.
Literate-Scratch describes itself as: =================================== Lisp Interaction w/ text paragraphs =================================== More at https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/literate-scratch.html ## Summary: Variant Lisp Interaction mode for easier interleaving of paragraphs of plain text with Lisp code. This means you can have ;; This buffer is for text that is not saved ... ;; To create a file, visit it with C-x C-f and ... (here is some Lisp) Here is a plain text paragraph )( including some unmatched parentheses. Uh oh! Paredit won't like that. (here is some more Lisp) but (e.g.) Paredit won't complain about the unmatched parentheses. Indeed, the whole plain text paragraph is font-locked as a comment. If you use Paredit but want to be able to use *scratch* for both Lisp interaction and blocks of plain text, then this mode is for you. Also compatible with the `orgalist-mode' and `orgtbl-mode' minor modes. ## Recent NEWS: Ver 2.0 2025/04/18 Sean Whitton Rewrite core algorithm to use comment starters not comment fences, and therefore no `syntax-propertize-extend-region-functions' entry. Thanks to Stefan Monnier for comments which prompted this. Newly recognise `\\=`(' as starting paragraphs of Lisp. Ver 1.0 2024/06/21 Sean Whitton Initial release. Thanks to Philip Kaludercic for review.