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4.2 Paragraph Commands

A paragraph may be delimited by a blank line or a line beginning with "’" or ".", in which case the delimiting line is not part of the paragraph. Other characters may be paragraph delimiters in some modes. A line with at least one leading whitespace character may also introduce a paragraph and is considered to be part of the paragraph. Any fill-prefix which is present on a line is disregarded for the purpose of locating a paragraph boundary.

Command: Forward Paragraph (bound to M-]) ¶

Command: Backward Paragraph (bound to M-[) ¶

Forward Paragraph moves to the end of the current or next paragraph. Backward Paragraph moves to the beginning of the current or previous paragraph. A prefix argument may be used as a repeat count.

Command: Mark Paragraph (bound to M-h) ¶

This command puts the point at the beginning and the mark at the end of the current paragraph.

Hemlock Variable: Paragraph Delimiter Function (initial value default-para-delim-function) ¶

This variable holds a function that takes a mark as its argument and returns true when the line it points to should break the paragraph.