Re: paragraph definition problems

[Jesper Harder]

Joerg <nospam@nospam.org> writes:

> Let's say I've got the following text:
>
> This is a paragraph.
>  This should be a new paragraph because of the space at the beginning.
>
> Now, if I press M-h to select the paragraph in the second line, the line
> above is also selected, in spite of the space in the beginning of the second
> one. Also M-q fills those "paragraphs" together.

I think `paragraph-indent-text-mode' does what you want:

,----[ C-h f paragraph-indent-text-mode RET ]
| paragraph-indent-text-mode is an interactive compiled Lisp function
| in `textmodes/text-mode'.  (paragraph-indent-text-mode)
| 
| Major mode for editing text, with leading spaces starting a paragraph.
| In this mode, you do not need blank lines between paragraphs
| when the first line of the following paragraph starts with whitespace.
| `paragraph-indent-minor-mode' provides a similar facility as a minor mode.
|
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