I'm hoping to make a key which, when pressed anywhere in the paragraph, does a reflow of the text in it. Since there's no paragraph selection primitive, has anybody worked on a macro that can tell what a paragraph is?

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// File: Select_Paragraph.jsee
// Autor: Dmitry Pirozhkov
// Date: 23.Nov.2006
// Info: Macro to select the entire paragraph.
// Requires: EmEditor Professional v.7.00 or later
// Usage: Place the cursor anywhere within a paragraph you wish to select. Run this macro.

var blankLine = "^$"; //the paragraph delimiter
var y1;

with (document.selection) {

if (document.GetLine(GetActivePointY(eePosLogical), eeGetLineWithNewLines).length<=2) {
alert ("Please, place the cursor on the non-blank line.");
Quit();
}

if (!Find(blankLine, eeFindPrevious | eeFindReplaceQuiet | eeFindReplaceRegExp)) {
y1 = 1;
} else y1 = GetActivePointY(eePosLogical)+1;

if (!Find(blankLine, eeFindNext | eeFindReplaceQuiet | eeFindReplaceRegExp)) {
EndOfDocument();
}

SetActivePoint(eePosLogical, 1, y1, true);
StartOfLine(true,eeLineHomeText); //to perceive an indent as the paragraph boundary
}
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webern,

Thanks for posting the code. It will help me in developing my macro in which the next/prev phrase surrounded by quotes should be selected.

Steven

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Steven

I just have removed two unnecessary lines form the code above. Recheck it now.

Thanks.

Maybe I'll try to make a version that perceives a change of indent to be a paragraph boundary...

I have added a line of code to perceive an indent as the paragraph boundary.
Also the code has been slightly optimized.
Recheck it.

Thanks. The macro basically works. But when I said "perceive a change of indent as a paragraph boundary", what I meant was that if one set of lines is indented to a different depth from other lines that are adjacent to it, that the macro would see these as being two distinct paragraphs.

Maybe that's not necessary. In fact, I probably don't need it. So I'll probably just use your macro as it is, but without the last line.

Sorry I asked the question and then forgot for so long to check back for the answers...

Anyway, the object I had in mind was to combine that with a macro of my own for reflowing text in a selection. Put them together, and you get something to reflow the paragraph the cursor is in.

Here is my reflow-selection macro:



The neat thing about this macro as it stands now is that if you select multiple paragraphs, it preserves the spaces between then and reflows each one individually.