(forward-sentence): Change limit of

re-search-backward to allow values of `sentence-end' anchored at BOL.

2 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/lisp/ChangeLog b/lisp/ChangeLog
index 30ba3804544..1687d8cfa74 100644
--- a/lisp/ChangeLog
+++ b/lisp/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2009-01-12  Alan Mackenzie  <acm@muc.de>
+
+        * textmodes/paragraphs.el (forward-sentence): Change limit of
+        re-search-backward to allow values of `sentence-end' anchored at BOL.
+
 2009-01-12  Stefan Monnier  <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
 
         * tar-mode.el (tar-header-block-tokenize): Properly ignore the version
diff --git a/lisp/textmodes/paragraphs.el b/lisp/textmodes/paragraphs.el
index 937140bd4dc..1d4a2746f62 100644
--- a/lisp/textmodes/paragraphs.el
+++ b/lisp/textmodes/paragraphs.el
@@ -449,7 +449,10 @@ sentences.  Also, every paragraph boundary terminates sentences as well."
         (sentence-end (sentence-end)))
     (while (< arg 0)
       (let ((pos (point))
-            (par-beg (save-excursion (start-of-paragraph-text) (point))))
+            ;; We used to use (start-of-paragraph-text), but this can
+            ;; prevent sentence-end from matching if it is anchored at
+            ;; BOL and the paragraph starts indented.
+            (par-beg (save-excursion (backward-paragraph) (point))))
        (if (and (re-search-backward sentence-end par-beg t)
                 (or (< (match-end 0) pos)
                     (re-search-backward sentence-end par-beg t)))