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I would like to change the definition of the paragraph in such a way that every line to be considered as a paragraph. As I understand from the documentation, one should change the variables paragraph-start and paragraph-separate for this purpose. I tried the following, but it doesn't work. (I have evaluated the following in the scratch buffer, but when using forward-paragraph, the usual definition of the paragraph is used by forward-paragraph).

(setq paragraph-start "\n"
       paragraph-separate "\n")
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  • You can achieve this with (setq paragraph-start "" paragraph-separate "\n"), but it looks almost identical to next-line. Why do you need to do this? – wvxvw Aug 30 '15 at 14:22
  • @wvxvw After your comment I tried (setq paragraph-start "" paragraph-separate ""), but it has no effect. The old definition of paragraph is still used. – Name Aug 30 '15 at 14:24
  • @wvxvw My motivation was to change the direction of lines provided by Emacs bidirectional support. – Name Aug 30 '15 at 14:27
  • @wvxvw Sorry I had not seen "\n" seems to work. – Name Aug 30 '15 at 14:32
  • FWIW, for any question about bidirectional text I recommend using help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org. The implementor of bidi in Emacs, and an expert on this kind of thing, reads that mailing list and often answers questions. Of course, you might also get a good answer here. – Drew Aug 30 '15 at 15:28
  • @wvxvw or OP: If the comment suggestion for "\n" works then please, someone, post that as an answer. Comments can be deleted at any time. OP: You can accept your own answer. – Drew Dec 26 '19 at 23:29

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