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From: "Endless Story" <usable.thought@gmail.com>
Subject: What's wrong with this seemingly simple function for unwrapping text?
Date: 12 Jan 2007 03:00:07 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1168599607.154137.166990@q2g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> (raw)

I like autofill mode, but it has one disadvantage: the filled lines
require unfilling if I want to copy the text over into a Word
processor, e.g. Word or OpenOffice. This can be rather tedious, so I
thought I would write a simple function and put it in my .init file to
make everything easy:

(defun unwrap-text ()
  (interactive)
  (setq fill-column 5000)
  (mark-whole-buffer)
  (fill-region)
  (setq fill-column '70)
)

When the function gets to fill-region, it bombs out, complaining about
'wrong number of variables.'  So my questions are:

1) For any lisp experts, what's going wrong here?
2) Is there some built-in way for doing what I want to do?

             reply	other threads:[~2007-01-12 11:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-12 11:00 Endless Story [this message]
2007-01-12 11:28 ` What's wrong with this seemingly simple function for unwrapping text? Tassilo Horn
2007-01-12 15:01 ` B. T. Raven
2007-01-13 12:18   ` Endless Story

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