micro-editor / micro-editor/micro

include the notion of "paragraph" and user defined words-separator

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Description

in xedit, ctrl-up send you to the cursor to the next white line before the current paragraph,
ctrl-down does the same, but in the opposite direction, hence goes to the white line right after the current paragraph.

Currently, seems like micro doesn't have the notion of "paragraph", only "words" and characters.
Also, would be nice if the user could choose characters to include as word-separators. At least I couldn't see it in settings.json
So as lone '_' aren't counted as words, for instance. Very nice feature it would be.

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Research direction

Start by examining how micro currently handles word and character movement, then compare the requested Ctrl-Up and Ctrl-Down behavior with xedit's paragraph navigation. Inspect settings.json handling for whether word-separator characters can be configured. Done means paragraph movement works in both directions and user-defined separators affect word navigation.

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Assessment

Tech stack
go
Domain
cli
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
32/100

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