Working With Paragraphs

As far as jEdit is concerned, "paragraphs" are delimited by double newlines. This is also how TeX defines a paragraph. Note that jEdit doesn't parse HTML files for "<P>" tags, nor does it support paragraphs delimited only by a leading indent.

Holding down Control in addition to Up or Down moves the caret to the previous and next paragraph, respectively. As with other caret movement commands, holding down Shift in addition to the above extends the selection, a paragraph at a time.

Edit>Text>Select Paragraph (shortcut: Control-E P) selects the paragraph containing the caret.

Edit>Text>Delete Paragraph (shortcut: Control-E D) deletes the paragraph containing the caret.

Edit>Text>Format Paragraph (shortcut: Control-E F) splits and joins lines in the current paragraph to make them fit within the wrap column position. See the section called "Inserting and Deleting Text" for information and word wrap and changing the wrap column.