1 ;;; paragraphs.el --- paragraph and sentence parsing
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27 ;; This package provides the paragraph-oriented commands documented in the
32 (defgroup paragraphs nil
33 "Paragraph and sentence parsing."
36 (put 'use-hard-newlines
'permanent-local t
)
37 (define-minor-mode use-hard-newlines
38 "Minor mode to distinguish hard and soft newlines.
39 When active, the functions `newline' and `open-line' add the
40 text-property `hard' to newlines that they insert, and a line is
41 only considered as a candidate to match `paragraph-start' or
42 `paragraph-separate' if it follows a hard newline.
44 Prefix argument says to turn mode on if positive, off if negative.
45 When the mode is turned on, if there are newlines in the buffer but no hard
46 newlines, ask the user whether to mark as hard any newlines preceding a
47 `paragraph-start' line. From a program, second arg INSERT specifies whether
48 to do this; it can be `never' to change nothing, t or `always' to force
49 marking, `guess' to try to do the right thing with no questions, nil
50 or anything else to ask the user.
52 Newlines not marked hard are called \"soft\", and are always internal
53 to paragraphs. The fill functions insert and delete only soft newlines."
56 (when use-hard-newlines
58 ;; Intuit hard newlines --
59 ;; mark as hard any newlines preceding a paragraph-start line.
60 (if (or (eq insert t
) (eq insert
'always
)
61 (and (not (eq 'never insert
))
62 (not (text-property-any (point-min) (point-max) 'hard t
))
64 (goto-char (point-min))
65 (search-forward "\n" nil t
))
66 (or (eq insert
'guess
)
67 (y-or-n-p "Make newlines between paragraphs hard? "))))
69 (goto-char (point-min))
70 (while (search-forward "\n" nil t
)
73 (when (looking-at paragraph-start
)
74 (set-hard-newline-properties (1- pos
) pos
))
75 ;; If paragraph-separate, newline after it is hard too.
76 (when (looking-at paragraph-separate
)
77 (set-hard-newline-properties (1- pos
) pos
)
80 (set-hard-newline-properties (point) (1+ (point)))))))))))
82 (defcustom paragraph-start
"\f\\|[ \t]*$" "\
83 Regexp for beginning of a line that starts OR separates paragraphs.
84 This regexp should match lines that separate paragraphs
85 and should also match lines that start a paragraph
86 \(and are part of that paragraph).
88 This is matched against the text at the left margin, which is not necessarily
89 the beginning of the line, so it should never use \"^\" as an anchor. This
90 ensures that the paragraph functions will work equally well within a region
91 of text indented by a margin setting.
93 The variable `paragraph-separate' specifies how to distinguish
94 lines that start paragraphs from lines that separate them.
96 If the variable `use-hard-newlines' is non-nil, then only lines following a
97 hard newline are considered to match."
100 (put 'paragraph-start
'safe-local-variable
'stringp
)
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).
108 (defcustom paragraph-separate
"[ \t\f]*$"
109 "Regexp for beginning of a line that separates paragraphs.
110 If you change this, you may have to change `paragraph-start' also.
112 This is matched against the text at the left margin, which is not necessarily
113 the beginning of the line, so it should not use \"^\" as an anchor. This
114 ensures that the paragraph functions will work equally within a region of
115 text indented by a margin setting."
118 (put 'paragraph-separate
'safe-local-variable
'stringp
)
120 (defcustom sentence-end-double-space t
121 "Non-nil means a single space does not end a sentence.
122 This is relevant for filling. See also `sentence-end-without-period'
123 and `colon-double-space'.
125 This value is used by the function `sentence-end' to construct the
126 regexp describing the end of a sentence, when the value of the variable
127 `sentence-end' is nil. See Info node `(elisp)Standard Regexps'."
130 (put 'sentence-end-double-space
'safe-local-variable
'booleanp
)
132 (defcustom sentence-end-without-period nil
133 "Non-nil means a sentence will end without a period.
134 For example, a sentence in Thai text ends with double space but
137 This value is used by the function `sentence-end' to construct the
138 regexp describing the end of a sentence, when the value of the variable
139 `sentence-end' is nil. See Info node `(elisp)Standard Regexps'."
142 (put 'sentence-end-without-period
'safe-local-variable
'booleanp
)
144 (defcustom sentence-end-without-space
146 "String of characters that end sentence without following spaces.
148 This value is used by the function `sentence-end' to construct the
149 regexp describing the end of a sentence, when the value of the variable
150 `sentence-end' is nil. See Info node `(elisp)Standard Regexps'."
153 (put 'sentence-end-without-space
'safe-local-variable
'stringp
)
155 (defcustom sentence-end nil
156 "Regexp describing the end of a sentence.
157 The value includes the whitespace following the sentence.
158 All paragraph boundaries also end sentences, regardless.
160 The value nil means to use the default value defined by the
161 function `sentence-end'. You should always use this function
162 to obtain the value of this variable."
164 :type
'(choice regexp
(const :tag
"Use default value" nil
)))
165 (put 'sentence-end
'safe-local-variable
'string-or-null-p
)
167 (defcustom sentence-end-base
"[.?!][]\"'”)}]*"
168 "Regexp matching the basic end of a sentence, not including following space."
172 (put 'sentence-end-base
'safe-local-variable
'stringp
)
174 (defun sentence-end ()
175 "Return the regexp describing the end of a sentence.
177 This function returns either the value of the variable `sentence-end'
178 if it is non-nil, or the default value constructed from the
179 variables `sentence-end-base', `sentence-end-double-space',
180 `sentence-end-without-period' and `sentence-end-without-space'.
182 The default value specifies that in order to be recognized as the
183 end of a sentence, the ending period, question mark, or exclamation point
184 must be followed by two spaces, with perhaps some closing delimiters
185 in between. See Info node `(elisp)Standard Regexps'."
187 ;; We accept non-break space along with space.
188 (concat (if sentence-end-without-period
"\\w[ \u00a0][ \u00a0]\\|")
191 (if sentence-end-double-space
192 "\\($\\|[ \u00a0]$\\|\t\\|[ \u00a0][ \u00a0]\\)" "\\($\\|[\t \u00a0]\\)")
193 "\\|[" sentence-end-without-space
"]+"
197 (defcustom page-delimiter
"^\014"
198 "Regexp describing line-beginnings that separate pages."
201 (put 'page-delimiter
'safe-local-variable
'stringp
)
203 (defcustom paragraph-ignore-fill-prefix nil
204 "Non-nil means the paragraph commands are not affected by `fill-prefix'.
205 This is desirable in modes where blank lines are the paragraph delimiters."
208 (put 'paragraph-ignore-fill-prefix
'safe-local-variable
'booleanp
)
210 (defun forward-paragraph (&optional arg
)
211 "Move forward to end of paragraph.
212 With argument ARG, do it ARG times;
213 a negative argument ARG = -N means move backward N paragraphs.
215 A line which `paragraph-start' matches either separates paragraphs
216 \(if `paragraph-separate' matches it also) or is the first line of a paragraph.
217 A paragraph end is the beginning of a line which is not part of the paragraph
218 to which the end of the previous line belongs, or the end of the buffer.
219 Returns the count of paragraphs left to move."
221 (or arg
(setq arg
1))
222 (let* ((opoint (point))
224 (and fill-prefix
(not (equal fill-prefix
""))
225 (not paragraph-ignore-fill-prefix
)
226 (regexp-quote fill-prefix
)))
227 ;; Remove ^ from paragraph-start and paragraph-sep if they are there.
228 ;; These regexps shouldn't be anchored, because we look for them
229 ;; starting at the left-margin. This allows paragraph commands to
230 ;; work normally with indented text.
231 ;; This hack will not find problem cases like "whatever\\|^something".
232 (parstart (if (and (not (equal "" paragraph-start
))
233 (equal ?^
(aref paragraph-start
0)))
234 (substring paragraph-start
1)
236 (parsep (if (and (not (equal "" paragraph-separate
))
237 (equal ?^
(aref paragraph-separate
0)))
238 (substring paragraph-separate
1)
241 (if fill-prefix-regexp
243 fill-prefix-regexp
"[ \t]*$")
245 ;; This is used for searching.
246 (sp-parstart (concat "^[ \t]*\\(?:" parstart
"\\|" parsep
"\\)"))
248 (while (and (< arg
0) (not (bobp)))
249 (if (and (not (looking-at parsep
))
250 (re-search-backward "^\n" (max (1- (point)) (point-min)) t
)
254 ;; Move back over paragraph-separating lines.
255 (forward-char -
1) (beginning-of-line)
256 (while (and (not (bobp))
257 (progn (move-to-left-margin)
258 (looking-at parsep
)))
263 ;; Go to end of the previous (non-separating) line.
265 ;; Search back for line that starts or separates paragraphs.
266 (if (if fill-prefix-regexp
267 ;; There is a fill prefix; it overrides parstart.
268 (let (multiple-lines)
269 (while (and (progn (beginning-of-line) (not (bobp)))
270 (progn (move-to-left-margin)
271 (not (looking-at parsep
)))
272 (looking-at fill-prefix-regexp
))
273 (unless (= (point) start
)
274 (setq multiple-lines t
))
276 (move-to-left-margin)
277 ;; This deleted code caused a long hanging-indent line
278 ;; not to be filled together with the following lines.
279 ;; ;; Don't move back over a line before the paragraph
280 ;; ;; which doesn't start with fill-prefix
281 ;; ;; unless that is the only line we've moved over.
282 ;; (and (not (looking-at fill-prefix-regexp))
286 (while (and (re-search-backward sp-parstart nil
1)
288 ;; Found a candidate, but need to check if it is a
290 (progn (setq start
(point))
291 (move-to-left-margin)
292 (not (looking-at parsep
)))
293 (not (and (looking-at parstart
)
294 (or (not use-hard-newlines
)
297 (1- start
) 'hard
)))))
298 (setq found-start nil
)
303 ;; Move forward over paragraph separators.
304 ;; We know this cannot reach the place we started
305 ;; because we know we moved back over a non-separator.
306 (while (and (not (eobp))
307 (progn (move-to-left-margin)
308 (looking-at parsep
)))
310 ;; If line before paragraph is just margin, back up to there.
312 (if (> (current-column) (current-left-margin))
314 (skip-chars-backward " \t")
317 ;; No starter or separator line => use buffer beg.
318 (goto-char (point-min))))))
320 (while (and (> arg
0) (not (eobp)))
321 ;; Move forward over separator lines...
322 (while (and (not (eobp))
323 (progn (move-to-left-margin) (not (eobp)))
326 (unless (eobp) (setq arg
(1- arg
)))
327 ;; ... and one more line.
329 (if fill-prefix-regexp
330 ;; There is a fill prefix; it overrides parstart.
331 (while (and (not (eobp))
332 (progn (move-to-left-margin) (not (eobp)))
333 (not (looking-at parsep
))
334 (looking-at fill-prefix-regexp
))
336 (while (and (re-search-forward sp-parstart nil
1)
337 (progn (setq start
(match-beginning 0))
340 (progn (move-to-left-margin)
341 (not (looking-at parsep
)))
342 (or (not (looking-at parstart
))
343 (and use-hard-newlines
344 (not (get-text-property (1- start
) 'hard
)))))
346 (if (< (point) (point-max))
348 (constrain-to-field nil opoint t
)
349 ;; Return the number of steps that could not be done.
352 (defun backward-paragraph (&optional arg
)
353 "Move backward to start of paragraph.
354 With argument ARG, do it ARG times;
355 a negative argument ARG = -N means move forward N paragraphs.
357 A paragraph start is the beginning of a line which is a
358 `paragraph-start' or which is ordinary text and follows a
359 `paragraph-separate'ing line; except: if the first real line of a
360 paragraph is preceded by a blank line, the paragraph starts at that
363 See `forward-paragraph' for more information."
365 (or arg
(setq arg
1))
366 (forward-paragraph (- arg
)))
368 (defun mark-paragraph (&optional arg allow-extend
)
369 "Put point at beginning of this paragraph, mark at end.
370 The paragraph marked is the one that contains point or follows point.
372 With argument ARG, puts mark at end of a following paragraph, so that
373 the number of paragraphs marked equals ARG.
375 If ARG is negative, point is put at end of this paragraph, mark is put
376 at beginning of this or a previous paragraph.
378 Interactively, if this command is repeated
379 or (in Transient Mark mode) if the mark is active,
380 it marks the next ARG paragraphs after the ones already marked."
382 (unless arg
(setq arg
1))
384 (error "Cannot mark zero paragraphs"))
385 (cond ((and allow-extend
386 (or (and (eq last-command this-command
) (mark t
))
387 (and transient-mark-mode mark-active
)))
391 (forward-paragraph arg
)
394 (forward-paragraph arg
)
396 (backward-paragraph arg
))))
398 (defun kill-paragraph (arg)
399 "Kill forward to end of paragraph.
400 With arg N, kill forward to Nth end of paragraph;
401 negative arg -N means kill backward to Nth start of paragraph."
403 (kill-region (point) (progn (forward-paragraph arg
) (point))))
405 (defun backward-kill-paragraph (arg)
406 "Kill back to start of paragraph.
407 With arg N, kill back to Nth start of paragraph;
408 negative arg -N means kill forward to Nth end of paragraph."
410 (kill-region (point) (progn (backward-paragraph arg
) (point))))
412 (defun transpose-paragraphs (arg)
413 "Interchange the current paragraph with the next one.
414 With prefix argument ARG a non-zero integer, moves the current
415 paragraph past ARG paragraphs, leaving point after the current paragraph.
416 If ARG is positive, moves the current paragraph forwards, if
417 ARG is negative moves it backwards. If ARG is zero, exchanges
418 the current paragraph with the one containing the mark."
420 (transpose-subr 'forward-paragraph arg
))
422 (defun start-of-paragraph-text ()
423 (let ((opoint (point)) npoint
)
424 (forward-paragraph -
1)
425 (setq npoint
(point))
426 (skip-chars-forward " \t\n")
427 ;; If the range of blank lines found spans the original start point,
428 ;; try again from the beginning of it.
429 ;; Must be careful to avoid infinite loop
430 ;; when following a single return at start of buffer.
431 (if (and (>= (point) opoint
) (< npoint opoint
))
434 (if (> npoint
(point-min))
435 (start-of-paragraph-text))))))
437 (defun end-of-paragraph-text ()
438 (let ((opoint (point)))
439 (forward-paragraph 1)
440 (if (eq (preceding-char) ?
\n) (forward-char -
1))
441 (if (<= (point) opoint
)
444 (if (< (point) (point-max))
445 (end-of-paragraph-text))))))
447 (defun forward-sentence (&optional arg
)
448 "Move forward to next end of sentence. With argument, repeat.
449 With negative argument, move backward repeatedly to start of sentence.
451 The variable `sentence-end' is a regular expression that matches ends of
452 sentences. Also, every paragraph boundary terminates sentences as well."
454 (or arg
(setq arg
1))
455 (let ((opoint (point))
456 (sentence-end (sentence-end)))
459 ;; We used to use (start-of-paragraph-text), but this can
460 ;; prevent sentence-end from matching if it is anchored at
461 ;; BOL and the paragraph starts indented.
462 (par-beg (save-excursion (backward-paragraph) (point))))
463 (if (and (re-search-backward sentence-end par-beg t
)
464 (or (< (match-end 0) pos
)
465 (re-search-backward sentence-end par-beg t
)))
466 (goto-char (match-end 0))
467 (goto-char par-beg
)))
470 (let ((par-end (save-excursion (end-of-paragraph-text) (point))))
471 (if (re-search-forward sentence-end par-end t
)
472 (skip-chars-backward " \t\n")
473 (goto-char par-end
)))
475 (constrain-to-field nil opoint t
)))
477 (defun repunctuate-sentences ()
478 "Put two spaces at the end of sentences from point to the end of buffer.
479 It works using `query-replace-regexp'."
481 (query-replace-regexp "\\([]\"')]?\\)\\([.?!]\\)\\([]\"')]?\\) +"
485 (defun backward-sentence (&optional arg
)
486 "Move backward to start of sentence. With arg, do it arg times.
487 See `forward-sentence' for more information."
489 (or arg
(setq arg
1))
490 (forward-sentence (- arg
)))
492 (defun kill-sentence (&optional arg
)
493 "Kill from point to end of sentence.
494 With arg, repeat; negative arg -N means kill back to Nth start of sentence."
496 (kill-region (point) (progn (forward-sentence arg
) (point))))
498 (defun backward-kill-sentence (&optional arg
)
499 "Kill back from point to start of sentence.
500 With arg, repeat, or kill forward to Nth end of sentence if negative arg -N."
502 (kill-region (point) (progn (backward-sentence arg
) (point))))
504 (defun mark-end-of-sentence (arg)
505 "Put mark at end of sentence. Arg works as in `forward-sentence'.
506 If this command is repeated, it marks the next ARG sentences after the
507 ones already marked."
511 (if (and (eq last-command this-command
) (mark t
))
513 (forward-sentence arg
)
517 (defun transpose-sentences (arg)
518 "Interchange the current sentence with the next one.
519 With prefix argument ARG a non-zero integer, moves the current
520 sentence past ARG sentences, leaving point after the current sentence.
521 If ARG is positive, moves the current sentence forwards, if
522 ARG is negative moves it backwards. If ARG is zero, exchanges
523 the current sentence with the one containing the mark."
525 (transpose-subr 'forward-sentence arg
))
531 ;;; paragraphs.el ends here