Re: Consider lines containing a tab a paragraph boundary

On Friday, April 12, 2013 2:16:10 PM UTC-5, zappat...@free.Fr wrote:
> Marco <netuse@lavabit.com> a écrit:
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> > On 2013–04–12 Ben Fritz wrote:
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> > > It's not configurable.
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> > >
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> > > { and } strictly use paragraph boundaries, defined as empty lines
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> > > or lines using nroff macros specified in the 'paragraphs' option.
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> > >
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> > > ip uses these but also has an exception for lines containing
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> > > nothing but whitespace.
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> > >
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> > > See :help paragraph and :help ip
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> > I did read those sections. The 'paragraphs' option with the default
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> > setting "IPLPPPQPP TPHPLIPpLpItpplpipbp" is one of the weirdest vim
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> > options I encountered in a while. Why is it restricted to nroff
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> > macros? It could better take a regex or anything more general than
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> > nroff macros.
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> > > This behavior annoys me too but it is what it is.
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> > Good to hear that it's not just me. If there is interest, maybe a
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> > second variable, e.g. 'paragraphsregex' could be implemented and set
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> > to an arbitrary regex as paragraph delimiter. If it's undefined, the
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> > old behaviour takes precedence to remain backwards compatible.
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> That behavior annoys a lot of people; it's even #46 in the wish list:
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> http://www.vim.org/sponsor/vote_results.php
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I don't see it in the wishlist.

But I do see a patch: https://groups.google.com/d/topic/vim_dev/8HShAdoMUSw/discussion

And another request: https://groups.google.com/d/topic/vim_dev/AFAK_k1kHvo/discussion

Both of these went nowhere.

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