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I want to use have numbering like equations for some regular text. So I am using equation environment. I am not writing any mathematics in it, so I'll also use textrm.

This is my basic code -

documentclass[fleqn]article
setlengthmathindent0pt

begindocument
noindent Select an\
Select apple\
beginequation
textrmMerge an & apple.
endequation
enddocument

If I am not wrong the equation comes as a new paragraph as it has an indent and it also leaves some space in between. (Please correct me if I'm wrong.) Basically I don't want this paragraph & I want this change globally. I've already removed the indent by modifying the mathindent Is there any way to change something like mathpar?

Screenshot of the desired output - (but with the equation number)

Code with the help of the solution provided by leandriis -

documentclass[fleqn]article
usepackageamsmath
setlengthmathindent0pt
newcountermynumber
newcommandmyno[1]refstepcountermynumber(arabicmynumber)label#1

begindocument
noindent Select an\
Select apple\
Merge an & apple. mynofirst\

Now merge eqreffirst
enddocument

This code produced -

Probably you could use something like the following:

The blue lines indicate the text width. The red box around the reference is caused by hyperref.

documentclass[fleqn]article

usepackagetabularx
usepackagehyperref
setlengthparindent0pt

newcountermynumber
newcommandmyno[1]refstepcountermynumber(arabicmynumber)label#1

begindocument

begintabularxtextwidth@Xr@
Select an \
Select apple \
Merge an & apple. & mynolabel\
endtabularx

Here comes a reference: reflabel

enddocument

I guess you want something like this:

documentclassarticle
usepackageamsmath

usepackagelipsum % for context

begindocument

lipsum[1][1-3]
beginflalign
begintabular@l@
Select an\
Select apple\
Merge an & apple.
endtabular&&labelwhatever
endflalign
lipsum*[2][1-3]

Reference to the thing above is refwhatever.

enddocument