Friday, April 12, 2013

Re: Consider lines containing a tab a paragraph boundary

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

Best,
Paul

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