Re: Consider lines containing a tab a paragraph boundary

On 2013–04–12 Ben Fritz wrote:

> It's not configurable.
>
> { and } strictly use paragraph boundaries, defined as empty lines
> or lines using nroff macros specified in the 'paragraphs' option.
>
> ip uses these but also has an exception for lines containing
> nothing but whitespace.
>
> See :help paragraph and :help ip

I did read those sections. The 'paragraphs' option with the default
setting "IPLPPPQPP TPHPLIPpLpItpplpipbp" is one of the weirdest vim
options I encountered in a while. Why is it restricted to nroff
macros? It could better take a regex or anything more general than
nroff macros.

> This behavior annoys me too but it is what it is.

Good to hear that it's not just me. If there is interest, maybe a
second variable, e.g. 'paragraphsregex' could be implemented and set
to an arbitrary regex as paragraph delimiter. If it's undefined, the
old behaviour takes precedence to remain backwards compatible.

Marco