I\'m using IntelliJ/Cursive to write Clojure.
I found out that the only way to erase parenthesis is to totally erase the content inside them, and only then, the parenthesis can
There is another way to remove parenthesis, using the structural editing command "Splice Sexp". You can also use slurping and barfing to manipulate the parenthesis to the order that you want.