LaTeX paragraphs

LaTeX paragraphs

[Davis Herring]

For GNU Emacs 21.2.1 (powerpc-apple-darwin, X toolkit) of 2003-06-06:

The regexps used by LaTeX mode for `paragraph-start' and 
`paragraph-separate' seem a bit too general: namely, using 
`forward-paragraph' and then `backward-paragraph' on

a

%b

c

with point on "b"'s line puts point after c and then just before c (this
is because, if I read the regexps correctly, the %comment is considered a
paragraph separator and thus skippable).  Similarly back then forth moves
across a both times.  This means, most notably, that `fill-paragraph' 
won't work on comments.  Moreover, `fill-region' on a comment doesn't seem 
to deduce the comment's fill-prefix properly -- not sure why on that, 
though.

Thanks in advance,
Davis Herring

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Re: LaTeX paragraphs

[Puff Addison]

Davis Herring wrote:
> For GNU Emacs 21.2.1 (powerpc-apple-darwin, X toolkit) of 2003-06-06:
> 
> The regexps used by LaTeX mode for `paragraph-start' and 
> `paragraph-separate' seem a bit too general: namely, using 
> `forward-paragraph' and then `backward-paragraph' on
> 
> a
> 
> %b
> 
> c
> 
> with point on "b"'s line puts point after c and then just before c (this
> is because, if I read the regexps correctly, the %comment is considered a
> paragraph separator and thus skippable).  Similarly back then forth moves
> across a both times.  This means, most notably, that `fill-paragraph' 
> won't work on comments.  Moreover, `fill-region' on a comment doesn't seem 
> to deduce the comment's fill-prefix properly -- not sure why on that, 
> though.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Davis Herring
> 
I have not checked what teh regexpr is  but in LaTeX blank lines are 
paragraph separaptors so its seesmto be working properly.