Re: multi-line paragraph separator

[Daniel Jensen]

Mirko <mvukovic@nycap.rr.com> writes:

> I tried by redefining the paragraph-start and paragraph-separate as
>   (make-local-variable 'paragraph-start)
>   (setq paragraph-start "\\f\\f|    ")
>   (make-local-variable 'paragraph-separate)
>   (setq paragraph-separate "\\f$\\f$")
> but that did not work.

Those are not well-formed regular expressions. For example, \f is not a
special construct, it's the same as f. You probably meant to write
"\f\f", but they are two formfeed characters, not newlines. You can use
"\n\n" to match two newline characters. I hope this helps.