Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Re: Consider lines containing a tab a paragraph boundary

On Wed, April 24, 2013 11:38, Bram Moolenaar wrote:
> Christian Brabandt wrote:
>> On Sa, 20 Apr 2013, Bram Moolenaar wrote:
>> > I wonder if changing 'paragraphs' and 'sections' into a regexp that
matches at what's between paragraphs is sufficient. How about this
style with two paragraphs:
>> Did this and updated the example. Would this be acceptable?
> Hmm, I think what we really want is to match the text from the end of
one paragraph until the start of the next one. The example with "/^$"
would still work to have empty-line separated paragraphs. Paragraphs
that start with an indent would be found with "/^\s\+".

correct.

> You could then also allow more than one empty line between paragraphs
with "/^\n*$".

That would be possible, but doesn't really change the cursor motion. Take
the example from the patch:
----------------------------
1 Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet,
2 consetetur sadipscing elitr,
3 sed diam
4
5
6 Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet,
7 consetetur sadipscing elitr,
8 sed diam

If the 'para' option is set to '/^$' moving using '}' will first move to
line 4, the next paragraph motion will move to line 5. Typing '}' again
will then move the cursor at the end of the last line.
--------------------------

Even is you use the /^\n\+$ as regular expression, the cursor will still
jump to the exact same positions, as line 4 and line 5 match
that regular expression. We could make it jump to the end of the match
using the SEARCH_END flag and then advance the cursor one more position,
but this would only work on forward searches, this doesn't seem to work
for backward searches:
https://groups.google.com/group/vim_use/msg/d82897dd34010e93?hl=de

regards,
Christian

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