Move by paragraph

[thedaniel]

In emacs, forward-paragraph and backward-paragraph are super handy, and in native OS X text areas, something very similar is mapped to opt-down and opt-up. This moves the cursor to the end of the current paragraph - in code (in emacs) these are delineated by newlines that are empty or only whitespace, and wrapped prose in native textareas, by newlines. Is there something like this available in Atom? If not, it might be worth adding to the platform keybindings for os x.

[mcolyer]

FWIW vim also has a motion for paragraph movement. So it'd be nice to have that in core too.

https://github.com/atom/vim-mode/blob/master/lib/motions.coffee#L156

[benogle]

I do have atom/line-jumper mapped to opt-up and opt-down, but it just moves 10 lines all the time. Maybe we can move @mcolyer's paragraph movement command into core?

I cant get the default osx text boxes to trigger this. What app?

[nathansobo]

I think general movement commands like this belong in core. Would also be cool if we found a way to pass numeric arguments to commands like line jumper a la emacs.

[izuzak]

Just noticed that @karlin created a neat little package for this: https://atom.io/packages/move-by-paragraph

If we'd still like to have this in core, perhaps @karlin would be interested in making a pull request? :bowtie:

[thedaniel]

I've been using this package: https://atom.io/packages/block-travel

[karlin]

@nathansobo @izuzak https://github.com/atom/atom/pull/2371

[probablycorey]

Closed by https://github.com/atom/atom/pull/2371

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