Re: PATCH: new option: alternate whitespace handling in paragraph search

[Mark Lundquist]

On Jul 20, 2008, at 3:38 AM, Ben Schmidt wrote:

But now
that I think of it... it really seems like a stretch to imagine that
anybody would find fault with the "new" behavior if it were done this

lines!!!"), but... who knows...? ;-)

way ("Hey! Paragraph motions are now stopping at all my whitespace- only

Yes, I would consider that behaviour a bug. IMHO whitespace only lines

use folding that relies on a distinction between empty lines and
whitespace-only lines.

are different to empty lines and should not break paragraphs. Indeed, I

—ml—

Well... there we go, now I don't have to "imagine" it... :-) Duly noted. So far nobody wants a special option for whitespace handling in paragraph search... there have been a few 'yeahs' for a general paragraph delimiter configuration setting. What would that look like? Unfortunately, the "paragraphs" ("para") option is already used for the special case of nroff macros. Also, is there a need to be able to specify paragraph open and close patterns, or just a single delimiter?

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