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Re: understanding fill-region, paragraph-separate, and paragraph-start


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: understanding fill-region, paragraph-separate, and paragraph-start
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2018 21:16:44 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux)

> I haven't been able to get this right. I think the regexp I want is
> "[^:]+: ",

That looks right for paragraph-start, except you want to stay within a line:

    "[^:\n]+: "

You probably want it to be even more restrictive, as in

    "[ \t]*[[:alpha:]]+: "


-- Stefan




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