Re: Indent first line of each paragraph of file in one hit

[Rodolfo Medina]

Konstantin Shakhnov <kastian@mail.ru> writes:

> On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 03:35:12PM +0000, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
>> Suppose you have a large file, in which the first line of each paragraph is
>> not indented; and want it to be with one single command for the whole file.
>> Is that possible, and how?
>
> I'm not great lisp master, but this dirty sketches works (just replace
> ">>>>" to what you need at the beginning of line):
>
> ;; Variant 1 ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
> (defun my-indent-first-line1 ()
>   "Indent the first line of each paragraph"
>   (interactive)
>   (goto-char (point-min))
>   (while (not (= (point) (point-max)))
>     (forward-paragraph)
>     (next-line)
>     (insert ">>>>")
>     (fill-paragraph)))
> ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
>
> (fill-paragraph) - is optional, delete it if you don't want refill
> paragraph after inserting
>
> ;; Variant 2 ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
> (defun my-indent-first-line2 ()
>   "Indent the first line of each paragraph"
>   (interactive)
>   (replace-regexp "\n\n" "\n\n>>>>" nil (point-min) (point-max)))
> ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;


Thanks, it seems to work fine.  But please now suppose that I want that command
to act only upon the paragraph where the cursor is now and not on the rest of
the document.

Thanks,

Rodolfo