Can't delete Parenthesis in IntelliJ/Cursive

Question

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

Answer 1

You can delete the parenthesis while remaining in structural editing mode by selecting/highlighting it first with your cursor or shift+arrow. You'll then need to manually remove the corresponding close parenthesis too.