Re: Consider lines containing a tab a paragraph boundary

Hi

On Fr, 12 Apr 2013, zappathustra@free.Fr wrote:

> Hello Christian,
>
> Christian Brabandt <cblists@256bit.org> a écrit:
> > Hi zappathustra!
>
> (Actually, it should be ``Paul Isambert'' as usual, but for the moment
> I'm stuck with the Google interface, and I'm registered with my email
> address only.)

Sorry, that is being added by mutt automatically and I usually don't
check it, because it usually just works ;)

>
> > On Fr, 12 Apr 2013, zappathustra@free.Fr wrote:
> >
> > > Marco <netuse@lavabit.com> a écrit:
> > > > 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.
> > >
> > > That behavior annoys a lot of people; it's even #46 in the wish list:
> > > http://www.vim.org/sponsor/vote_results.php
> >
> > Some time ago¹, I made a patch. Please test. Here is the updated patch
> > again (which I seemed to have forgotten to attach in a later message).
> >
> > ¹) https://groups.google.com/d/msg/vim_dev/6r6qX8W6I_Y/pQPexgLWI6UJ
>
> Ah, nice! (I remember that issue had come up recently.)
>
> I've applied the patch and it's quite good; too bad I'm quite lame
> with building Vim myself (I've only recently succeeded in building
> the GUI...) and I prefer to use the Debian package. I'll have to wait
> until the patch is official!
>
> Anyway I've already found two buglets :) (unless your patch was just a
> proof of concept): first, branches won't work:
>
> set paragraphs=/^\s*$\|whatever

The patch in fact was just a proof of concept. But if there is interest,
I can work on it further. Please let me know any problems you found and
the settings of the paragraphs/section setting.

> doesn't find anything; second (but that's actually inherited from the
> original option), it'd be nice if the option were global-local.

That indeed is a nice extension. I can change this as well.

Mit freundlichen Grüßen
Christian
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