"H. Dieter Wilhelm" <dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de> writes:

> But I would like to extend this solution for the following case: (and
> (eobp) (bolp)).  The current implementation of M-h is doing nothing (for
> positive arguments) because - formally - the cursor sits in an "empty"
> paragraph and there are no further paragraphs below.
>
> But in this situation applying M-h clearly shows the user's intention to
> mark the paragraph above the cursor (and possibly further ones above
> when typing M-hhhh).
>
> What is your opinion?

I'm not quite sure I follow you, but either with the proposed patch, or
what I take to be your suggestion here, `mark-paragraph' works quite
differently here than in Emacs 27, and we should get the previous
behaviour back.

With this buffer: