Variable: paragraph-separate

paragraph-separate is a customizable variable defined in paragraphs.el.gz.

Value

"[      \f]*$"

Documentation

Regexp for beginning of a line that separates paragraphs.

If you change this, you may have to change paragraph-start also.

This is matched against the text at the left margin, which is not necessarily the beginning of the line, so it should not use "^" as an anchor. This ensures that the paragraph functions will work equally within a region of text indented by a margin setting.

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Probably introduced at or before Emacs version 19.29.

Source Code

;; Defined in /usr/src/emacs/lisp/textmodes/paragraphs.el.gz
;; paragraph-start requires a hard newline, but paragraph-separate does not:
;; It is assumed that paragraph-separate is distinctive enough to be believed
;; whenever it occurs, while it is reasonable to set paragraph-start to
;; something very minimal, even including "." (which makes every hard newline
;; start a new paragraph).

(defcustom paragraph-separate "[ \t\f]*$"
  "Regexp for beginning of a line that separates paragraphs.
If you change this, you may have to change `paragraph-start' also.

This is matched against the text at the left margin, which is not necessarily
the beginning of the line, so it should not use \"^\" as an anchor.  This
ensures that the paragraph functions will work equally within a region of
text indented by a margin setting."
  :type 'regexp
  :safe #'stringp)