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1;;; paragraphs.el --- paragraph and sentence parsing.
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3;; Copyright (C) 1985, 86, 87, 91, 94, 95, 96, 1997
4;; Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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4821e2af 6;; Maintainer: FSF
d7b4d18f 7;; Keywords: wp
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9;; This file is part of GNU Emacs.
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14;; any later version.
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22;; along with GNU Emacs; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the
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24;; Boston, MA 02111-1307, 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
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37;; It isn't useful to use defcustom for this variable
38;; because it is always buffer-local.
39(defvar use-hard-newlines nil
55cc5677 40 "Non-nil means to distinguish hard and soft newlines.
bde0f7ca 41See documentation for the `use-hard-newlines' function.")
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42(make-variable-buffer-local 'use-hard-newlines)
43
44(defun use-hard-newlines (&optional arg insert)
45 "Minor mode to distinguish hard and soft newlines.
46When active, the functions `newline' and `open-line' add the
47text-property `hard' to newlines that they insert, and a line is
55cc5677 48only considered as a candidate to match `paragraph-start' or
965eb84a 49`paragraph-separate' if it follows a hard newline.
55cc5677 50
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51Prefix argument says to turn mode on if positive, off if negative.
52When the mode is turned on, if there are newlines in the buffer but no hard
53newlines, ask the user whether to mark as hard any newlines preceeding a
54`paragraph-start' line. From a program, second arg INSERT specifies whether
55to do this; it can be `never' to change nothing, t or `always' to force
56marking, `guess' to try to do the right thing with no questions, nil
57or anything else to ask the user.
58
59Newlines not marked hard are called \"soft\", and are always internal
60to paragraphs. The fill functions insert and delete only soft newlines."
61 (interactive (list current-prefix-arg nil))
62 (if (or (<= (prefix-numeric-value arg) 0)
63 (and use-hard-newlines (null arg)))
64 ;; Turn mode off
65 (setq use-hard-newlines nil)
66 ;; Turn mode on
67 ;; Intuit hard newlines --
68 ;; mark as hard any newlines preceding a paragraph-start line.
69 (if (or (eq insert t) (eq insert 'always)
70 (and (not (eq 'never insert))
71 (not use-hard-newlines)
72 (not (text-property-any (point-min) (point-max) 'hard t))
73 (save-excursion
74 (goto-char (point-min))
75 (search-forward "\n" nil t))
76 (or (eq insert 'guess)
77 (y-or-n-p "Make newlines between paragraphs hard? "))))
78 (save-excursion
79 (goto-char (point-min))
80 (while (search-forward "\n" nil t)
81 (let ((pos (point)))
82 (move-to-left-margin)
83 (if (looking-at paragraph-start)
84 (progn
85 (set-hard-newline-properties (1- pos) pos)
86 ;; If paragraph-separate, newline after it is hard too.
87 (if (looking-at paragraph-separate)
88 (progn
89 (end-of-line)
90 (if (not (eobp))
91 (set-hard-newline-properties
92 (point) (1+ (point))))))))))))
93 (setq use-hard-newlines t)))
55cc5677 94
e4550233 95(defcustom paragraph-start "[ \t\n\f]" "\
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96*Regexp for beginning of a line that starts OR separates paragraphs.
97This regexp should match lines that separate paragraphs
98and should also match lines that start a paragraph
99\(and are part of that paragraph).
a37669ec 100
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101This is matched against the text at the left margin, which is not necessarily
102the beginning of the line, so it should never use \"^\" as an anchor. This
103ensures that the paragraph functions will work equally well within a region
104of text indented by a margin setting.
105
1f2007b3 106The variable `paragraph-separate' specifies how to distinguish
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107lines that start paragraphs from lines that separate them.
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109If the variable `use-hard-newlines' is nonnil, then only lines following a
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110hard newline are considered to match."
111 :group 'paragraphs
112 :type 'regexp)
6503cec3 113
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114;; paragraph-start requires a hard newline, but paragraph-separate does not:
115;; It is assumed that paragraph-separate is distinctive enough to be believed
116;; whenever it occurs, while it is reasonable to set paragraph-start to
117;; something very minimal, even including "." (which makes every hard newline
118;; start a new paragraph).
119
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120(defcustom paragraph-separate "[ \t\f]*$"
121 "*Regexp for beginning of a line that separates paragraphs.
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122If you change this, you may have to change paragraph-start also.
123
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124This is matched against the text at the left margin, which is not necessarily
125the beginning of the line, so it should not use \"^\" as an anchor. This
126ensures that the paragraph functions will work equally within a region of
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127text indented by a margin setting."
128 :group 'paragraphs
129 :type 'regexp)
6503cec3 130
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131(defcustom sentence-end (purecopy "[.?!][]\"')}]*\\($\\| $\\|\t\\| \\)[ \t\n]*")
132 "*Regexp describing the end of a sentence.
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133All paragraph boundaries also end sentences, regardless.
134
135In order to be recognized as the end of a sentence, the ending period,
136question mark, or exclamation point must be followed by two spaces,
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137unless it's inside some sort of quotes or parenthesis."
138 :group 'paragraphs
139 :type 'regexp)
140
141(defcustom page-delimiter "^\014"
142 "*Regexp describing line-beginnings that separate pages."
143 :group 'paragraphs
144 :type 'regexp)
145
146(defcustom paragraph-ignore-fill-prefix nil
147 "*Non-nil means the paragraph commands are not affected by `fill-prefix'.
148This is desirable in modes where blank lines are the paragraph delimiters."
149 :group 'paragraphs
150 :type 'boolean)
77176e73 151
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152(defun forward-paragraph (&optional arg)
153 "Move forward to end of paragraph.
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154With argument ARG, do it ARG times;
155a negative argument ARG = -N means move backward N paragraphs.
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156
157A line which `paragraph-start' matches either separates paragraphs
158\(if `paragraph-separate' matches it also) or is the first line of a paragraph.
159A paragraph end is the beginning of a line which is not part of the paragraph
160to which the end of the previous line belongs, or the end of the buffer."
161 (interactive "p")
162 (or arg (setq arg 1))
163 (let* ((fill-prefix-regexp
164 (and fill-prefix (not (equal fill-prefix ""))
165 (not paragraph-ignore-fill-prefix)
166 (regexp-quote fill-prefix)))
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167 ;; Remove ^ from paragraph-start and paragraph-sep if they are there.
168 ;; These regexps shouldn't be anchored, because we look for them
169 ;; starting at the left-margin. This allows paragraph commands to
170 ;; work normally with indented text.
171 ;; This hack will not find problem cases like "whatever\\|^something".
172 (paragraph-start (if (and (not (equal "" paragraph-start))
173 (equal ?^ (aref paragraph-start 0)))
174 (substring paragraph-start 1)
175 paragraph-start))
c4ac30da 176 (paragraph-separate (if (and (not (equal "" paragraph-separate))
55cc5677 177 (equal ?^ (aref paragraph-separate 0)))
c4ac30da 178 (substring paragraph-separate 1)
55cc5677 179 paragraph-separate))
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180 (paragraph-separate
181 (if fill-prefix-regexp
55cc5677 182 (concat paragraph-separate "\\|"
a2535589 183 fill-prefix-regexp "[ \t]*$")
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184 paragraph-separate))
185 ;; This is used for searching.
186 (sp-paragraph-start (concat "^[ \t]*\\(" paragraph-start "\\)"))
187 start)
8a2a4ced 188 (while (and (< arg 0) (not (bobp)))
55cc5677 189 (if (and (not (looking-at paragraph-separate))
a37669ec 190 (re-search-backward "^\n" (max (1- (point)) (point-min)) t)
55cc5677 191 (looking-at paragraph-separate))
a2535589 192 nil
2be01738 193 (setq start (point))
8a2a4ced 194 ;; Move back over paragraph-separating lines.
a2535589 195 (forward-char -1) (beginning-of-line)
a37669ec 196 (while (and (not (bobp))
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197 (progn (move-to-left-margin)
198 (looking-at paragraph-separate)))
199 (forward-line -1))
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200 (if (bobp)
201 nil
202 ;; Go to end of the previous (non-separating) line.
203 (end-of-line)
204 ;; Search back for line that starts or separates paragraphs.
205 (if (if fill-prefix-regexp
206 ;; There is a fill prefix; it overrides paragraph-start.
2be01738 207 (let (multiple-lines)
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208 (while (and (progn (beginning-of-line) (not (bobp)))
209 (progn (move-to-left-margin)
210 (not (looking-at paragraph-separate)))
211 (looking-at fill-prefix-regexp))
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212 (if (not (= (point) start))
213 (setq multiple-lines t))
55cc5677 214 (forward-line -1))
2be01738 215 (move-to-left-margin)
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216;;; This deleted code caused a long hanging-indent line
217;;; not to be filled together with the following lines.
218;;; ;; Don't move back over a line before the paragraph
219;;; ;; which doesn't start with fill-prefix
220;;; ;; unless that is the only line we've moved over.
221;;; (and (not (looking-at fill-prefix-regexp))
222;;; multiple-lines
223;;; (forward-line 1))
2be01738 224 (not (bobp)))
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225 (while (and (re-search-backward sp-paragraph-start nil 1)
226 ;; Found a candidate, but need to check if it is a
227 ;; REAL paragraph-start.
a37669ec 228 (not (bobp))
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229 (progn (setq start (point))
230 (move-to-left-margin)
231 (not (looking-at paragraph-separate)))
232 (or (not (looking-at paragraph-start))
233 (and use-hard-newlines
234 (not (get-text-property (1- start)
235 'hard)))))
236 (goto-char start))
a37669ec 237 (> (point) (point-min)))
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238 ;; Found one.
239 (progn
240 ;; Move forward over paragraph separators.
241 ;; We know this cannot reach the place we started
242 ;; because we know we moved back over a non-separator.
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243 (while (and (not (eobp))
244 (progn (move-to-left-margin)
245 (looking-at paragraph-separate)))
8a2a4ced 246 (forward-line 1))
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247 ;; If line before paragraph is just margin, back up to there.
248 (end-of-line 0)
249 (if (> (current-column) (current-left-margin))
250 (forward-char 1)
251 (skip-chars-backward " \t")
252 (if (not (bolp))
253 (forward-line 1))))
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254 ;; No starter or separator line => use buffer beg.
255 (goto-char (point-min)))))
a2535589 256 (setq arg (1+ arg)))
8a2a4ced 257 (while (and (> arg 0) (not (eobp)))
88c2fc2c 258 ;; Move forward over separator lines, and one more line.
a2535589 259 (while (prog1 (and (not (eobp))
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260 (progn (move-to-left-margin) (not (eobp)))
261 (looking-at paragraph-separate))
a37669ec 262 (forward-line 1)))
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263 (if fill-prefix-regexp
264 ;; There is a fill prefix; it overrides paragraph-start.
265 (while (and (not (eobp))
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266 (progn (move-to-left-margin) (not (eobp)))
267 (not (looking-at paragraph-separate))
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268 (looking-at fill-prefix-regexp))
269 (forward-line 1))
55cc5677 270 (while (and (re-search-forward sp-paragraph-start nil 1)
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271 (progn (setq start (match-beginning 0))
272 (goto-char start)
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273 (not (eobp)))
274 (progn (move-to-left-margin)
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275 (not (looking-at paragraph-separate)))
276 (or (not (looking-at paragraph-start))
277 (and use-hard-newlines
278 (not (get-text-property (1- start) 'hard)))))
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279 (forward-char 1))
280 (if (< (point) (point-max))
55cc5677 281 (goto-char start)))
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282 (setq arg (1- arg)))))
283
284(defun backward-paragraph (&optional arg)
285 "Move backward to start of paragraph.
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286With argument ARG, do it ARG times;
287a negative argument ARG = -N means move forward N paragraphs.
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289A paragraph start is the beginning of a line which is a
290`first-line-of-paragraph' or which is ordinary text and follows a
291paragraph-separating line; except: if the first real line of a
292paragraph is preceded by a blank line, the paragraph starts at that
293blank line.
294
295See `forward-paragraph' for more information."
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296 (interactive "p")
297 (or arg (setq arg 1))
298 (forward-paragraph (- arg)))
299
300(defun mark-paragraph ()
301 "Put point at beginning of this paragraph, mark at end.
302The paragraph marked is the one that contains point or follows point."
303 (interactive)
304 (forward-paragraph 1)
0b108c01 305 (push-mark nil t t)
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306 (backward-paragraph 1))
307
308(defun kill-paragraph (arg)
309 "Kill forward to end of paragraph.
310With arg N, kill forward to Nth end of paragraph;
311negative arg -N means kill backward to Nth start of paragraph."
23b34992 312 (interactive "p")
8d6eaa00 313 (kill-region (point) (progn (forward-paragraph arg) (point))))
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315(defun backward-kill-paragraph (arg)
316 "Kill back to start of paragraph.
317With arg N, kill back to Nth start of paragraph;
318negative arg -N means kill forward to Nth end of paragraph."
23b34992 319 (interactive "p")
8d6eaa00 320 (kill-region (point) (progn (backward-paragraph arg) (point))))
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321
322(defun transpose-paragraphs (arg)
323 "Interchange this (or next) paragraph with previous one."
324 (interactive "*p")
325 (transpose-subr 'forward-paragraph arg))
326
327(defun start-of-paragraph-text ()
328 (let ((opoint (point)) npoint)
329 (forward-paragraph -1)
330 (setq npoint (point))
331 (skip-chars-forward " \t\n")
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332 ;; If the range of blank lines found spans the original start point,
333 ;; try again from the beginning of it.
334 ;; Must be careful to avoid infinite loop
335 ;; when following a single return at start of buffer.
336 (if (and (>= (point) opoint) (< npoint opoint))
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337 (progn
338 (goto-char npoint)
339 (if (> npoint (point-min))
340 (start-of-paragraph-text))))))
341
342(defun end-of-paragraph-text ()
343 (let ((opoint (point)))
344 (forward-paragraph 1)
345 (if (eq (preceding-char) ?\n) (forward-char -1))
346 (if (<= (point) opoint)
347 (progn
348 (forward-char 1)
349 (if (< (point) (point-max))
350 (end-of-paragraph-text))))))
351
352(defun forward-sentence (&optional arg)
51534471 353 "Move forward to next `sentence-end'. With argument, repeat.
23b34992 354With negative argument, move backward repeatedly to `sentence-beginning'.
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356The variable `sentence-end' is a regular expression that matches ends of
357sentences. Also, every paragraph boundary terminates sentences as well."
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358 (interactive "p")
359 (or arg (setq arg 1))
360 (while (< arg 0)
361 (let ((par-beg (save-excursion (start-of-paragraph-text) (point))))
362 (if (re-search-backward (concat sentence-end "[^ \t\n]") par-beg t)
363 (goto-char (1- (match-end 0)))
364 (goto-char par-beg)))
365 (setq arg (1+ arg)))
366 (while (> arg 0)
367 (let ((par-end (save-excursion (end-of-paragraph-text) (point))))
368 (if (re-search-forward sentence-end par-end t)
369 (skip-chars-backward " \t\n")
370 (goto-char par-end)))
371 (setq arg (1- arg))))
372
373(defun backward-sentence (&optional arg)
374 "Move backward to start of sentence. With arg, do it arg times.
23b34992 375See `forward-sentence' for more information."
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376 (interactive "p")
377 (or arg (setq arg 1))
378 (forward-sentence (- arg)))
379
380(defun kill-sentence (&optional arg)
381 "Kill from point to end of sentence.
382With arg, repeat; negative arg -N means kill back to Nth start of sentence."
b0e1e38f 383 (interactive "p")
8d6eaa00 384 (kill-region (point) (progn (forward-sentence arg) (point))))
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385
386(defun backward-kill-sentence (&optional arg)
387 "Kill back from point to start of sentence.
388With arg, repeat, or kill forward to Nth end of sentence if negative arg -N."
b0e1e38f 389 (interactive "p")
8d6eaa00 390 (kill-region (point) (progn (backward-sentence arg) (point))))
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391
392(defun mark-end-of-sentence (arg)
23b34992 393 "Put mark at end of sentence. Arg works as in `forward-sentence'."
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394 (interactive "p")
395 (push-mark
396 (save-excursion
397 (forward-sentence arg)
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398 (point))
399 nil t))
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400
401(defun transpose-sentences (arg)
402 "Interchange this (next) and previous sentence."
403 (interactive "*p")
404 (transpose-subr 'forward-sentence arg))
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405
406;;; paragraphs.el ends here