Backspace is not a paragraph separator in Texinfo files

* lisp/textmodes/texinfo.el (texinfo-mode): Omit backspace from
paragraph separator and start.  Perhaps there was some confusion
about .texi vs .info files long ago?

2 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/doc/misc/org.texi b/doc/misc/org.texi
index 7453b1db042..807b80dbdb5 100644
--- a/doc/misc/org.texi
+++ b/doc/misc/org.texi
@@ -19694,8 +19694,8 @@ mentioned in the manual.  For a complete list, use @kbd{M-x org-customize
 @c Local variables:
 @c fill-column: 77
 @c indent-tabs-mode: nil
-@c paragraph-start:    "\\|^@[a-zA-Z]*[ \n]\\|^@x?org\\(key\\|cmd\\)\\|\f\\|[  ]*$"
-@c paragraph-separate: "\\|^@[a-zA-Z]*[ \n]\\|^@x?org\\(key\\|cmd\\)\\|[       \f]*$"
+@c paragraph-start:    "^@[a-zA-Z]*[ \n]\\|^@x?org\\(key\\|cmd\\)\\|\f\\|[      ]*$"
+@c paragraph-separate: "^@[a-zA-Z]*[ \n]\\|^@x?org\\(key\\|cmd\\)\\|[   \f]*$"
 @c End:
 
 
diff --git a/lisp/textmodes/texinfo.el b/lisp/textmodes/texinfo.el
index 16399bd9fd7..ff723a4fb94 100644
--- a/lisp/textmodes/texinfo.el
+++ b/lisp/textmodes/texinfo.el
@@ -596,9 +596,9 @@ value of `texinfo-mode-hook'."
   (setq-local require-final-newline mode-require-final-newline)
   (setq-local indent-tabs-mode nil)
   (setq-local paragraph-separate
-              (concat "\b\\|@[a-zA-Z]*[ \n]\\|"
+              (concat "@[a-zA-Z]*[ \n]\\|"
                       paragraph-separate))
-  (setq-local paragraph-start (concat "\b\\|@[a-zA-Z]*[ \n]\\|"
+  (setq-local paragraph-start (concat "@[a-zA-Z]*[ \n]\\|"
                                       paragraph-start))
   (setq-local sentence-end-base "\\(@\\(end\\)?dots{}\\|[.?!]\\)[]\"'”)}]*")
   (setq-local fill-column 70)