hl-paragraph-mode

Minor mode for highlighting paragraphs under the cursor. Similar to the built-in hl-line mode.

Installation

(add-to-list 'load-path "/path/to/hl-paragraph-mode")
(require 'hl-paragraph-mode)

Usage

(hl-paragraph-mode) enables the mode locally. (hl-paragraph-global-mode) enables it globally.

Customizations

By default hl-paragraph-mode will highlight the lines in a paragraph. To change it so only the text inside the paragraph is highlighted, set its value to nil.

(setq hl-paragraph-highlight-entire-line nil)

The face hl-paragraph-face can be customized. By default it inherits its attributes from hl-line.

(set-face-attribute 'hl-paragraph-face nil :background "yellow")

This makes the background of the highlighted text yellow.