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How can I navigate to a certain paragraph number?
If I want to move to the 33rd line in a file, I execute M-x goto-line <RET> 33, but there does not seem to be an equivalent goto-paragraph function.
I could write a function to do this for me (i.e. go to beginning of file, then execute forward-paragraph X number of times), but I am wondering if there is a built-in function for this already.
I'm not aware of a built-in function for this, but as you already noted you can write one:
(defun goto-paragraph (arg)
"Go to paragraph ARG."
(interactive "nGoto paragraph: ")
(goto-char (point-min))
(forward-paragraph arg))
emacs +33 file.txt to open file.txt at line 33. Could I do this for paragraph 33?
--funcall or --eval.
Not sure if you were already aware of this or not, but you can interactively do this without writing a function per se, using the universal argument -- in my emacs forward-paragraph is bound to "M-}", so you can go to beginning of buffer, "C-u-33-M-}" and it will jump forward 33 paragraphs. You could even capture this to a keyboard macro with a kbd-macro-query inside to ask you how many paragraphs, and then save that macro off and bind it to a key. Just to let you know that there are ways to do this without writing any Emacs Lisp at all.
