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55535639 1;;; paragraphs.el --- paragraph and sentence parsing
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51d7369e 3;; Copyright (C) 1985, 86, 87, 91, 94, 95, 96, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2004
e4550233 4;; Free Software Foundation, Inc.
9750e079 5
4821e2af 6;; Maintainer: FSF
d7b4d18f 7;; Keywords: wp
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9;; This file is part of GNU Emacs.
10
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29add8b9 13;; the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
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14;; any later version.
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23;; Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor,
24;; Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
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26;;; Commentary:
27
28;; This package provides the paragraph-oriented commands documented in the
29;; Emacs manual.
30
4821e2af 31;;; Code:
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33(defgroup paragraphs nil
34 "Paragraph and sentence parsing."
35 :group 'editing)
36
c28e534b 37(put 'use-hard-newlines 'permanent-local t)
07187d55 38(define-minor-mode use-hard-newlines
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39 "Minor mode to distinguish hard and soft newlines.
40When active, the functions `newline' and `open-line' add the
41text-property `hard' to newlines that they insert, and a line is
55cc5677 42only considered as a candidate to match `paragraph-start' or
965eb84a 43`paragraph-separate' if it follows a hard newline.
55cc5677 44
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45Prefix argument says to turn mode on if positive, off if negative.
46When the mode is turned on, if there are newlines in the buffer but no hard
db95369b 47newlines, ask the user whether to mark as hard any newlines preceeding a
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48`paragraph-start' line. From a program, second arg INSERT specifies whether
49to do this; it can be `never' to change nothing, t or `always' to force
db95369b 50marking, `guess' to try to do the right thing with no questions, nil
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51or anything else to ask the user.
52
53Newlines not marked hard are called \"soft\", and are always internal
54to paragraphs. The fill functions insert and delete only soft newlines."
eacd92dd 55 :group 'paragraphs
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56 :extra-args (insert)
57 (when use-hard-newlines
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58 ;; Turn mode on
59 ;; Intuit hard newlines --
60 ;; mark as hard any newlines preceding a paragraph-start line.
61 (if (or (eq insert t) (eq insert 'always)
62 (and (not (eq 'never insert))
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63 (not (text-property-any (point-min) (point-max) 'hard t))
64 (save-excursion
65 (goto-char (point-min))
66 (search-forward "\n" nil t))
67 (or (eq insert 'guess)
68 (y-or-n-p "Make newlines between paragraphs hard? "))))
69 (save-excursion
70 (goto-char (point-min))
71 (while (search-forward "\n" nil t)
72 (let ((pos (point)))
73 (move-to-left-margin)
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74 (when (looking-at paragraph-start)
75 (set-hard-newline-properties (1- pos) pos))
76 ;; If paragraph-separate, newline after it is hard too.
77 (when (looking-at paragraph-separate)
78 (set-hard-newline-properties (1- pos) pos)
79 (end-of-line)
80 (unless (eobp)
81 (set-hard-newline-properties (point) (1+ (point)))))))))))
55cc5677 82
07187d55 83(defcustom paragraph-start "\f\\|[ \t]*$" "\
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84*Regexp for beginning of a line that starts OR separates paragraphs.
85This regexp should match lines that separate paragraphs
86and should also match lines that start a paragraph
87\(and are part of that paragraph).
a37669ec 88
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89This is matched against the text at the left margin, which is not necessarily
90the beginning of the line, so it should never use \"^\" as an anchor. This
91ensures that the paragraph functions will work equally well within a region
92of text indented by a margin setting.
93
1f2007b3 94The variable `paragraph-separate' specifies how to distinguish
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95lines that start paragraphs from lines that separate them.
96
3f5dc0b0 97If the variable `use-hard-newlines' is non-nil, then only lines following a
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98hard newline are considered to match."
99 :group 'paragraphs
100 :type 'regexp)
6503cec3 101
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102;; paragraph-start requires a hard newline, but paragraph-separate does not:
103;; It is assumed that paragraph-separate is distinctive enough to be believed
104;; whenever it occurs, while it is reasonable to set paragraph-start to
105;; something very minimal, even including "." (which makes every hard newline
106;; start a new paragraph).
107
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108(defcustom paragraph-separate "[ \t\f]*$"
109 "*Regexp for beginning of a line that separates paragraphs.
9d7c4eb5 110If you change this, you may have to change `paragraph-start' also.
a37669ec 111
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112This is matched against the text at the left margin, which is not necessarily
113the beginning of the line, so it should not use \"^\" as an anchor. This
114ensures that the paragraph functions will work equally within a region of
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115text indented by a margin setting."
116 :group 'paragraphs
117 :type 'regexp)
6503cec3 118
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119(defcustom sentence-end-double-space t
120 "*Non-nil means a single space does not end a sentence.
121This is relevant for filling. See also `sentence-end-without-period'
122and `colon-double-space'.
123
32e40471 124This value is used by the function `sentence-end' to construct the
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125regexp describing the end of a sentence, when the value of the variable
126`sentence-end' is nil. See Info node `(elisp)Standard Regexps'."
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127 :type 'boolean
128 :group 'fill)
129
130(defcustom sentence-end-without-period nil
131 "*Non-nil means a sentence will end without a period.
132For example, a sentence in Thai text ends with double space but
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133without a period.
134
135This value is used by the function `sentence-end' to construct the
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136regexp describing the end of a sentence, when the value of the variable
137`sentence-end' is nil. See Info node `(elisp)Standard Regexps'."
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138 :type 'boolean
139 :group 'fill)
140
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141(defcustom sentence-end-without-space
142 "\e$B!#!%!)!*\e$A!##.#?#!\e$(0!$!%!)!*\e$(G!$!%!)!*\e(B"
51d7369e 143 "*String of characters that end sentence without following spaces.
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144
145This value is used by the function `sentence-end' to construct the
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146regexp describing the end of a sentence, when the value of the variable
147`sentence-end' is nil. See Info node `(elisp)Standard Regexps'."
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148 :group 'paragraphs
149 :type 'string)
150
32e40471 151(defcustom sentence-end nil
e4550233 152 "*Regexp describing the end of a sentence.
ac1470eb 153The value includes the whitespace following the sentence.
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154All paragraph boundaries also end sentences, regardless.
155
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156The value nil means to use the default value defined by the
157function `sentence-end'. You should always use this function
158to obtain the value of this variable."
e4550233 159 :group 'paragraphs
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160 :type '(choice regexp (const :tag "Use default value" nil)))
161
162(defun sentence-end ()
163 "Return the regexp describing the end of a sentence.
164
165This function returns either the value of the variable `sentence-end'
166if it is non-nil, or the default value constructed from the
167variables `sentence-end-double-space', `sentence-end-without-period'
168and `sentence-end-without-space'. The default value specifies
169that in order to be recognized as the end of a sentence, the
170ending period, question mark, or exclamation point must be
171followed by two spaces, unless it's inside some sort of quotes or
51d7369e 172parenthesis. See Info node `(elisp)Standard Regexps'."
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173 (or sentence-end
174 (concat (if sentence-end-without-period "\\w \\|")
7f2081e3 175 "\\([.?!][]\"'\xd0c9\x5397d)}]*"
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176 (if sentence-end-double-space
177 "\\($\\| $\\|\t\\| \\)" "\\($\\|[\t ]\\)")
178 "\\|[" sentence-end-without-space "]+\\)"
179 "[ \t\n]*")))
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180
181(defcustom page-delimiter "^\014"
182 "*Regexp describing line-beginnings that separate pages."
183 :group 'paragraphs
184 :type 'regexp)
185
186(defcustom paragraph-ignore-fill-prefix nil
187 "*Non-nil means the paragraph commands are not affected by `fill-prefix'.
188This is desirable in modes where blank lines are the paragraph delimiters."
189 :group 'paragraphs
190 :type 'boolean)
77176e73 191
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192(defun forward-paragraph (&optional arg)
193 "Move forward to end of paragraph.
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194With argument ARG, do it ARG times;
195a negative argument ARG = -N means move backward N paragraphs.
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196
197A line which `paragraph-start' matches either separates paragraphs
198\(if `paragraph-separate' matches it also) or is the first line of a paragraph.
199A paragraph end is the beginning of a line which is not part of the paragraph
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200to which the end of the previous line belongs, or the end of the buffer.
201Returns the count of paragraphs left to move."
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202 (interactive "p")
203 (or arg (setq arg 1))
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204 (let* ((opoint (point))
205 (fill-prefix-regexp
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206 (and fill-prefix (not (equal fill-prefix ""))
207 (not paragraph-ignore-fill-prefix)
208 (regexp-quote fill-prefix)))
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209 ;; Remove ^ from paragraph-start and paragraph-sep if they are there.
210 ;; These regexps shouldn't be anchored, because we look for them
211 ;; starting at the left-margin. This allows paragraph commands to
212 ;; work normally with indented text.
213 ;; This hack will not find problem cases like "whatever\\|^something".
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214 (parstart (if (and (not (equal "" paragraph-start))
215 (equal ?^ (aref paragraph-start 0)))
216 (substring paragraph-start 1)
217 paragraph-start))
218 (parsep (if (and (not (equal "" paragraph-separate))
219 (equal ?^ (aref paragraph-separate 0)))
220 (substring paragraph-separate 1)
221 paragraph-separate))
222 (parsep
a2535589 223 (if fill-prefix-regexp
629261c7 224 (concat parsep "\\|"
a2535589 225 fill-prefix-regexp "[ \t]*$")
629261c7 226 parsep))
55cc5677 227 ;; This is used for searching.
629261c7 228 (sp-parstart (concat "^[ \t]*\\(?:" parstart "\\|" parsep "\\)"))
eeb0f327 229 start found-start)
8a2a4ced 230 (while (and (< arg 0) (not (bobp)))
629261c7 231 (if (and (not (looking-at parsep))
a37669ec 232 (re-search-backward "^\n" (max (1- (point)) (point-min)) t)
629261c7 233 (looking-at parsep))
de24b077 234 (setq arg (1+ arg))
2be01738 235 (setq start (point))
8a2a4ced 236 ;; Move back over paragraph-separating lines.
a2535589 237 (forward-char -1) (beginning-of-line)
a37669ec 238 (while (and (not (bobp))
55cc5677 239 (progn (move-to-left-margin)
629261c7 240 (looking-at parsep)))
3f5dc0b0 241 (forward-line -1))
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242 (if (bobp)
243 nil
de24b077 244 (setq arg (1+ arg))
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245 ;; Go to end of the previous (non-separating) line.
246 (end-of-line)
247 ;; Search back for line that starts or separates paragraphs.
248 (if (if fill-prefix-regexp
629261c7 249 ;; There is a fill prefix; it overrides parstart.
2be01738 250 (let (multiple-lines)
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251 (while (and (progn (beginning-of-line) (not (bobp)))
252 (progn (move-to-left-margin)
629261c7 253 (not (looking-at parsep)))
55cc5677 254 (looking-at fill-prefix-regexp))
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255 (unless (= (point) start)
256 (setq multiple-lines t))
55cc5677 257 (forward-line -1))
2be01738 258 (move-to-left-margin)
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259 ;; This deleted code caused a long hanging-indent line
260 ;; not to be filled together with the following lines.
261 ;; ;; Don't move back over a line before the paragraph
262 ;; ;; which doesn't start with fill-prefix
263 ;; ;; unless that is the only line we've moved over.
264 ;; (and (not (looking-at fill-prefix-regexp))
265 ;; multiple-lines
266 ;; (forward-line 1))
2be01738 267 (not (bobp)))
629261c7 268 (while (and (re-search-backward sp-parstart nil 1)
eeb0f327 269 (setq found-start t)
55cc5677 270 ;; Found a candidate, but need to check if it is a
629261c7 271 ;; REAL parstart.
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272 (progn (setq start (point))
273 (move-to-left-margin)
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274 (not (looking-at parsep)))
275 (not (and (looking-at parstart)
276 (or (not use-hard-newlines)
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277 (bobp)
278 (get-text-property
279 (1- start) 'hard)))))
eeb0f327 280 (setq found-start nil)
55cc5677 281 (goto-char start))
eeb0f327 282 found-start)
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283 ;; Found one.
284 (progn
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285 ;; Move forward over paragraph separators.
286 ;; We know this cannot reach the place we started
287 ;; because we know we moved back over a non-separator.
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288 (while (and (not (eobp))
289 (progn (move-to-left-margin)
629261c7 290 (looking-at parsep)))
8a2a4ced 291 (forward-line 1))
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292 ;; If line before paragraph is just margin, back up to there.
293 (end-of-line 0)
294 (if (> (current-column) (current-left-margin))
295 (forward-char 1)
296 (skip-chars-backward " \t")
297 (if (not (bolp))
298 (forward-line 1))))
8a2a4ced 299 ;; No starter or separator line => use buffer beg.
de24b077 300 (goto-char (point-min))))))
629261c7 301
8a2a4ced 302 (while (and (> arg 0) (not (eobp)))
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303 ;; Move forward over separator lines...
304 (while (and (not (eobp))
305 (progn (move-to-left-margin) (not (eobp)))
306 (looking-at parsep))
307 (forward-line 1))
308 (unless (eobp) (setq arg (1- arg)))
309 ;; ... and one more line.
310 (forward-line 1)
a2535589 311 (if fill-prefix-regexp
629261c7 312 ;; There is a fill prefix; it overrides parstart.
a2535589 313 (while (and (not (eobp))
55cc5677 314 (progn (move-to-left-margin) (not (eobp)))
629261c7 315 (not (looking-at parsep))
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316 (looking-at fill-prefix-regexp))
317 (forward-line 1))
629261c7 318 (while (and (re-search-forward sp-parstart nil 1)
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319 (progn (setq start (match-beginning 0))
320 (goto-char start)
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321 (not (eobp)))
322 (progn (move-to-left-margin)
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323 (not (looking-at parsep)))
324 (or (not (looking-at parstart))
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325 (and use-hard-newlines
326 (not (get-text-property (1- start) 'hard)))))
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327 (forward-char 1))
328 (if (< (point) (point-max))
de24b077 329 (goto-char start))))
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330 (constrain-to-field nil opoint t)
331 ;; Return the number of steps that could not be done.
332 arg))
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333
334(defun backward-paragraph (&optional arg)
335 "Move backward to start of paragraph.
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336With argument ARG, do it ARG times;
337a negative argument ARG = -N means move forward N paragraphs.
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339A paragraph start is the beginning of a line which is a
340`first-line-of-paragraph' or which is ordinary text and follows a
341paragraph-separating line; except: if the first real line of a
342paragraph is preceded by a blank line, the paragraph starts at that
343blank line.
344
345See `forward-paragraph' for more information."
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346 (interactive "p")
347 (or arg (setq arg 1))
348 (forward-paragraph (- arg)))
349
94ed0931 350(defun mark-paragraph (&optional arg allow-extend)
a2535589 351 "Put point at beginning of this paragraph, mark at end.
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352The paragraph marked is the one that contains point or follows point.
353
354With argument ARG, puts mark at end of a following paragraph, so that
355the number of paragraphs marked equals ARG.
356
357If ARG is negative, point is put at end of this paragraph, mark is put
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358at beginning of this or a previous paragraph.
359
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360Interactively, if this command is repeated
361or (in Transient Mark mode) if the mark is active,
362it marks the next ARG paragraphs after the ones already marked."
363 (interactive "p\np")
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364 (unless arg (setq arg 1))
365 (when (zerop arg)
366 (error "Cannot mark zero paragraphs"))
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367 (cond ((and allow-extend
368 (or (and (eq last-command this-command) (mark t))
369 (and transient-mark-mode mark-active)))
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370 (set-mark
371 (save-excursion
372 (goto-char (mark))
373 (forward-paragraph arg)
374 (point))))
375 (t
376 (forward-paragraph arg)
377 (push-mark nil t t)
378 (backward-paragraph arg))))
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379
380(defun kill-paragraph (arg)
381 "Kill forward to end of paragraph.
382With arg N, kill forward to Nth end of paragraph;
383negative arg -N means kill backward to Nth start of paragraph."
275cf1b2 384 (interactive "p")
8d6eaa00 385 (kill-region (point) (progn (forward-paragraph arg) (point))))
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386
387(defun backward-kill-paragraph (arg)
388 "Kill back to start of paragraph.
389With arg N, kill back to Nth start of paragraph;
390negative arg -N means kill forward to Nth end of paragraph."
275cf1b2 391 (interactive "p")
17cca868 392 (kill-region (point) (progn (backward-paragraph arg) (point))))
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393
394(defun transpose-paragraphs (arg)
395 "Interchange this (or next) paragraph with previous one."
396 (interactive "*p")
397 (transpose-subr 'forward-paragraph arg))
398
399(defun start-of-paragraph-text ()
400 (let ((opoint (point)) npoint)
401 (forward-paragraph -1)
402 (setq npoint (point))
403 (skip-chars-forward " \t\n")
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404 ;; If the range of blank lines found spans the original start point,
405 ;; try again from the beginning of it.
406 ;; Must be careful to avoid infinite loop
407 ;; when following a single return at start of buffer.
408 (if (and (>= (point) opoint) (< npoint opoint))
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409 (progn
410 (goto-char npoint)
411 (if (> npoint (point-min))
412 (start-of-paragraph-text))))))
413
414(defun end-of-paragraph-text ()
415 (let ((opoint (point)))
416 (forward-paragraph 1)
417 (if (eq (preceding-char) ?\n) (forward-char -1))
418 (if (<= (point) opoint)
419 (progn
420 (forward-char 1)
421 (if (< (point) (point-max))
422 (end-of-paragraph-text))))))
423
424(defun forward-sentence (&optional arg)
51534471 425 "Move forward to next `sentence-end'. With argument, repeat.
23b34992 426With negative argument, move backward repeatedly to `sentence-beginning'.
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428The variable `sentence-end' is a regular expression that matches ends of
429sentences. Also, every paragraph boundary terminates sentences as well."
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430 (interactive "p")
431 (or arg (setq arg 1))
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432 (let ((opoint (point))
433 (sentence-end (sentence-end)))
17cca868 434 (while (< arg 0)
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435 (let ((pos (point))
436 (par-beg (save-excursion (start-of-paragraph-text) (point))))
437 (if (and (re-search-backward sentence-end par-beg t)
438 (or (< (match-end 0) pos)
439 (re-search-backward sentence-end par-beg t)))
440 (goto-char (match-end 0))
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441 (goto-char par-beg)))
442 (setq arg (1+ arg)))
443 (while (> arg 0)
444 (let ((par-end (save-excursion (end-of-paragraph-text) (point))))
445 (if (re-search-forward sentence-end par-end t)
446 (skip-chars-backward " \t\n")
447 (goto-char par-end)))
448 (setq arg (1- arg)))
449 (constrain-to-field nil opoint t)))
a2535589 450
d320a41d 451(defun repunctuate-sentences ()
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452 "Put two spaces at the end of sentences from point to the end of buffer.
453It works using `query-replace-regexp'."
279dffd6 454 (interactive)
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455 (query-replace-regexp "\\([]\"')]?\\)\\([.?!]\\)\\([]\"')]?\\) +"
456 "\\1\\2\\3 "))
457
458
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459(defun backward-sentence (&optional arg)
460 "Move backward to start of sentence. With arg, do it arg times.
23b34992 461See `forward-sentence' for more information."
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462 (interactive "p")
463 (or arg (setq arg 1))
464 (forward-sentence (- arg)))
465
466(defun kill-sentence (&optional arg)
467 "Kill from point to end of sentence.
468With arg, repeat; negative arg -N means kill back to Nth start of sentence."
275cf1b2 469 (interactive "p")
8d6eaa00 470 (kill-region (point) (progn (forward-sentence arg) (point))))
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471
472(defun backward-kill-sentence (&optional arg)
473 "Kill back from point to start of sentence.
474With arg, repeat, or kill forward to Nth end of sentence if negative arg -N."
275cf1b2 475 (interactive "p")
17cca868 476 (kill-region (point) (progn (backward-sentence arg) (point))))
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477
478(defun mark-end-of-sentence (arg)
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479 "Put mark at end of sentence. Arg works as in `forward-sentence'.
480If this command is repeated, it marks the next ARG sentences after the
481ones already marked."
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482 (interactive "p")
483 (push-mark
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484 (save-excursion
485 (if (and (eq last-command this-command) (mark t))
486 (goto-char (mark)))
487 (forward-sentence arg)
488 (point))
489 nil t))
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490
491(defun transpose-sentences (arg)
492 "Interchange this (next) and previous sentence."
493 (interactive "*p")
494 (transpose-subr 'forward-sentence arg))
6594deb0 495
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496;;; Local Variables:
497;;; coding: iso-2022-7bit
498;;; End:
499
ab5796a9 500;;; arch-tag: e727eb1a-527a-4464-b9d7-9d3ec0d1a575
6594deb0 501;;; paragraphs.el ends here