Question

How to change default emacs mark-paragraph function behaviour to not select first empty line?

my emacs http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1019877/e2.PNG

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I’ve made Bohzidars upgraded version and it works for first line too.

(global-set-key (kbd "M-h") (lambda ()
                    (interactive)
                    (mark-paragraph)
                    (if (> (line-number-at-pos) 1)
                        (next-line))                    
                    (beginning-of-line)))

thanks guys for the tips.

Answer 1

You cannot change the behaviour of mark-paragraph, but you can easily bind another command to the C-M-h keystroke (to resemble the original M-h):

(global-set-key (kbd "C-M-h") (lambda ()
                    (interactive)
                    (mark-paragraph)
                    (next-line)
                    (beginning-of-line)))

Something like this should do the trick.