Make { and } ignore lines containing only whitespace

Question

When you navigate by paragraph in vim using { and } it skips lines that contain nothing but whitespace though they are otherwise \'blank\'.

How can I convince vim to tre

Answer 1

As said before, if you run :help paragraph you will see that lines with whitespace are not treated as a boundary.

In the mean time there are two plugin projects which could help:

• Improved paragraph motion (mirrored as https://github.com/vim-scripts/Improved-paragraph-motion)
• Vim Paragraph Motion based on the code in the other answers.

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If you use Pathogen, simply download from one of the sites mentioned above.

If you use Vundle, put one of the following in your .vimrc:

• Improved paragraph motion:

  Bundle 'vim-scripts/Improved-paragraph-motion'
  

• Vim Paragraph Motion:

  Bundle 'dbakker/vim-paragraph-motion'
  

Run :BundleInstall after a reboot and the { } motions should stop on lines containing whitespace characters.