Re: UTF-8 line feeds versus LS/PS

[Bram Moolenaar <Bram@moolenaar.net>]

Thomas Wolff wrote:

[separating paragraphs with an empty line]
> I don't think this is a good recommendation as it enforces the users 
> to format their plain text files visually different from how they 
> actually want it.

True.  Another idea I heard was to detect the start of another paragraph by a
different indent.  This breaks when a paragraph is a single line.

> That's why I use the following default scheme in my editor (mined...) 
> which I think is quite useful:
> A line terminated without a blank terminates a paragraph. A blank at the 
> end of a line means the paragraph continues.
> This way we have no restriction imposed on the text layout and it's easy 
> to apply.

Hmm, that should work quite well.  So far Vim always automatically deleted
trailing spaces when formatting text.  This paragraph style can't be on by
default, but it's a useful option.  Thanks for the hint!

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